Attitudes towards foreign things and foreign people in China seem to vacillatein cyclical waves of favor and disfavor, comfort and discomfort, worship and disdain.
中国对待外来事物和外国人的态度似乎总是在喜欢和不喜欢、舒服和不舒服、崇拜和蔑视的循环中摇摆往复。
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Nevertheless, he continued to vacillate, like Hamlet, in the execution of his filial obligation to his late father's request.
不过，他就象哈姆雷特，在为了尽孝而完成他过世的父亲的要求时犹豫起来。
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Such parents vacillate between saying no and giving in -but neither response seems satisfactory to them.