在不长时间内连续两次被裁员之后，你可能很难保持进取的状态。

After two layoffs in quick succession, it can be hard to stay positive.

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虽然我渴望能偷看一眼Frank Shay在格林尼治村开的那家小书店，这家店仅在19世纪20年代初存在了不长时间，虽无缘一见，但我知道它是属于而且仅仅属于它自己的年代，对我来说就足够了。

Though I wish I'd been able to peek inside Frank Shay's Greenwich Village shop, which lived briefly in the early nineteen-twenties, I'm O.K. with the idea that it was of its time and only of its time.

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It came into existence as part of, along with, the creation of my body, and it won't continue to exist, at least not very long, after the destruction of my body.

它的出现,是伴随着我身体的出现而产生的,在我死后它就不存在了,至少在我身体死亡之后不会存活很长时间

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I'm going to live here for, who knows how long. Quite a long time.

我打算定居在这儿，不知道多久。会是相当长一段时间。

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