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Oh, Helmholtz, darling, do come and have a picnic supper with us on Exmoor. They clung round him imploringly. 哦，赫姆霍尔兹，亲爱的，晚饭时一定到老荒原来吧，跟我们一起野餐。她们缠住他乞求道。 He shook his hea

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Obstinately the beautiful memories refused to rise; 美丽的回忆总顽固地拒绝升起， there was only a hateful resurrection of jealousies and uglinesses and miseries. 真正复活了的倒是关于妒忌、丑恶和苦难的可惜的记忆。

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She tried to cry outbut no sound came; 她想叫喊却发不出声音。 only the terror of her staring eyes revealed what she was suffering. 只有她那瞪大的眼睛里的恐怖表露出她所受到的折磨。 Her hands went to her throat, then

【荆棘鸟】第二章 22

So she sent the girl home and told her not to come back until her head was clean. I left her and Sister Declan and Sister Catherine looking through every head in the school, and there turned out to be a lot of lousy ones. Those three nuns were scratc

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The driver was forced to explain that this was an old man. 驭车人只得给他解释这是一位老人。 Deep in thought, Gautama returned to his palace. 乔答摩若有所思地回到他的宫殿。 On another occasion he saw someone who was sick

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Despair lent him strength to walk, and to carry his burden. 幸好他还有踯躅着走路的力气。 On his way, he passed a house, about which there was a crowd. 在路上，他路过一幢房子，只见一群人在那儿围观。 He drew nigh, a

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at the door of the poor schoolmaster on the summer evening, before the furnace fire upon the cold wet night, 夏日的黄昏立在那可怜的教师门口，寒冷潮湿的夜晚睡在那座熔炉的前面， at the still bedside of the dying boy, th

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