Strange to say, too, that night we crossed the ferry with Bull Lee a girl committed suicide off the deck either just before or just after us. We saw it in the paper the next day.

还有件很奇怪的事儿，我们和布尔·李渡过渡口的那天晚上,一个姑娘从船上跳水自杀了，大概不是在我们渡河之前,就是以后，第二天我们从报纸上看到了这个消息。

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Now if you lived in a culture where the only meat that got served was the size of a deck of cards, and the only pasta that got served was the size of a tennis ball, there wouldn't be such problems, but that's not the case.

如果我们生活在一个,肉类每日摄入量是一副牌大小,或者意大利面只有网球大小的环境中,问题就不会存在,可惜这不是现实

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