From time to time she caught the flicker of a candle through the crack of a shutter--this was light and life; there were people there, and it reassured her.

有时，她从一家人家的窗板缝里望见一线烛光，那也就是光明，也就是生命，说明那里还有人，她的心也就安了。

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"Every day we would eat a spoonful, just enough to maintain the flicker of life, but the children would not," she said.

“每天我们吃掉一勺的量，刚刚能让人活下去，但孩子们不行，”她说。

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More importantly, he taught them what is the beauty of music, so that is no longer a boring life cycle, but the music, little candles flicker.

更重要的是，他教会了他们什么是音乐之美，使生命不再是一个枯燥乏味的循环，而是闪烁着音乐的点点烛光。

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Even the Commonwealth of Independent States, a moribund, Russian-dominated talking-shop for most countries in the former Soviet Union, has shown a flicker of life.

ECONOMIST: Russia��s south