I was embarrassed how to punish him when I discovered his part in the business: he's such a cobweb, a pinch would annihilate him.
当我发现他参与了这件事时，我不知道该如何惩罚他才好：他是一个蜘蛛网，一抓就要使他消亡。
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Postulating the effect is one thing; teasing it out from the cobweb of climatic feedback loops and estimating its magnitude is something else altogether.