We’re hamsters on a treadmill, running for no real purpose, except to make a boss happy, to make money for someone else, or perhaps to make money for ourselves … but to what end?

我们就是跑步机上的老鼠，毫无目的地奔跑着，除了讨老板欢心，为别人，或许还为自己挣点钱，......但是，哪里是尽头呢？

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For a long time, I've been hoping for a computer, but my father buys me everything about study except for a computer, because he worries that I will spent all my time on playing computer.

很长一段时间了，我一直想有一台电脑，但是爸爸会给我买任何与学习相关的东西，除了电脑，因为他担心我会把所有时间花在玩电脑上。

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Or he would think about other things, about when he went to visit her for the first time at the convenience store at Vibanda—but in those memories everything was vivid, except for Femi herself.

他也会想起其他事情，他第一次去她在Vibanda经营的便利店—在那段记忆里，一切都是那么鲜活，除了Femi。

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We could not bring in a recorder, but the courtroom is mostly quiet except for the lawyers, witnesses and judge talking.

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This is the first full paragraph: I don't know how to cure the sourcitis, except to tell you that I can discover a good many possible sources myself for Wise Blood, but I am often embarrassed to find that I read the sources after I had written the book.

这是第一段的全文：,“我不知道如何解决资料来源的问题，只能告诉你,我自己发现了很多《慧血》的材料来源，但我经常觉得很难堪,因为我在完成了那本书后才读的资料。

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But I mean, when you're on campus, except for Fridays are pretty dead obviously.

但我的意思是说，在校园里，除了周五，其余时间都很安静。

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