He lived alone in a house of logs surrounded on all sides by the great forest, of whose gloom and silence he seemed a part, for no one had ever known him to smile nor speak a needless word.

他独自住在一间四面被森林包围的小木屋里，他的忧郁与沉默似乎把他同他人隔绝开来，没有人看到他笑过，他亦惜字如金。

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And the erstwhile investment bank is not alone in its gloom.

沮丧的不再是从前的投资银行。

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Ged and Arren went through the narrow streets alone, though a few times they saw a figure at the turning of another way, distant and hardly to be seen in the gloom.

Ged和Arren独自穿过狭窄的街道，曾有几次，他们仿佛在街道的拐角处看到人影，那么远，在昏暗中看不真切。

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