She thought his smug two-year-old grin of self-amusement and satisfaction would drive her to the brink, but she maintained her composure.
她认为她那两岁的儿子沾沾自喜、洋洋得意的咧嘴一笑,足以把她推向崩溃的边缘,但她仍然保持镇定。
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In short, the Sun's large-scale magnetic field is taken to be self-sustaining, so that the solar-activity cycle it drives would be maintained with little overall change for perhaps billions of years.