Could someone explain why 'breaks' is used instead of 'broke' for the blank 3 ?

I know some might say it expresses a general truth or a state of mind rather than a specific past action. However, it feels to me like something that actually happened in the story as a past event—meaning it 'broke' the rule/balance at that specific time.

Besides, state verbs like hate or like, which also describe mental states, usually follow tense agreement with the context (for example, 'He didn’t say anything, but he hated the guests wearing shoes inside'). Why doesn't that logic apply here?[Image]

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Could someone explain why 'breaks' is used instead of 'broke' for the blank 3 ?

I know some might say it expresses a general truth or a state of mind rather than a specific past action. However, it feels to me like something that actually happened in the story as a past event—meaning it 'broke' the rule/balance at that specific time.

Besides, state verbs like hate or like, which also describe mental states, usually follow tense agreement with the context (for example, 'He didn’t say anything, but he hated the guests wearing shoes inside'). Why doesn't that logic apply here?[Image]

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Hi
Because that’s a fact about this person.

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It is absolutely a general truth. The em dashes indicate it is a parenthetical statement. That person who did not remove their shoes did not do so because it is a general truth that removing shoes breaks their rule.

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看原文: — because wearing outdoor shoes indoors____ (break) their “natural order”.

因为这句前面有一个破折号, 是说明原因或道理的的,这种原因或道理描述的是“通常的道理”，任何时候都是这种道理，它与谓语动词“break”动作的时间无关（讨论过去，现在，或将来）都是这个道理，有点类似于就好像“地球绕着太阳转”那样，是一个真理。所以用一般现在时（第三人称单数breaks）→这是因为动作break的主语（the agent of the verb “break”）是动名词短语“ wearing outdoor  shoes”(穿着户外的鞋)，后面的indoors (注意indoor 是形容词，而这儿是以s结尾的“indoors”为副词) 是副词。
译文:  — 因为穿着户外的鞋进入室内会打破它们的“固有秩序”。

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