“听着，小叮当，”他叫道，“我再也不是你的朋友了。”

"Listen, Tinker Bell," he cried, "I am your friend no more."

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然而现在，当我快满四十岁时，我意识到：即使坐在你旁边的人和你不是最好的朋友，你也可以正常完成工作并把它做得令人满意。

Whereas now, as I near the end of my fourth decade, I realize work can be fully functional and entirely fulfilling without needing to be best mates with the people sitting next to you.

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“我经常给家人和朋友寄明信片，”他对《中国日报》说，“但你可以想象，过一段时间，你收到的明信片不如你寄的那么多，而且你意识到并不是每个人都喜欢这样，但也没关系。”

"I often send postcards to family and friends," he says to China Daily, "but you can imagine that after a while, you never receive as many as you send, and you realize that not everyone is into it, and that's totally fine."

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You do not live on the other side of the water, my friend.

我的朋友,因为你不是我这边的

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