我想事情发生在，对了，快到上个夏末的时候。

I think it happened, well, towards the end of last summer.

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有人这样不耐烦地问作者，而夏皮罗先生（对其而言，莎士比亚就是个欺世盗名之徒）却认为这事关重大，并且读完此书后，读者们也会这样想。

someone asked the author wearily. Mr Shapiro (for whom Shakespeare was definitely the man) thinks it matters a lot, and by the end of this book, his readers will think so too.

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夏达表示，尽管自己也想精心打扮，然后和朋友们去逛街；但她不能停下画笔。

Xia says that she also wants to dress up and go shopping with friends, but she just can't stop drawing.

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