One spring afternoon five years ago, Jimmy Liao sat crying in the lobby of Taipei's Sherwood Hotel.

五年前一个春天的午后，几米（者按：本名廖福彬）在台北西华饭店的大厅里痛哭失声。

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One spring afternoon, torrential rains washed down the hillside, eroding the entrance to their mine .

一个春天的午后，暴雨冲刷着山坳，侵蚀着矿洞的入口。

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One afternoon in the spring of 2009, I was marking midterms in my tiny garret office at Columbia University when the phone rang.

2009年春天的一个下午，我窝在哥伦比亚大学小小的亭子间里，正在批改期中作业，电话响了。

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One afternoon that spring, I received a call from Jimmy, who was teaching in a village near the Yangtze River.

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One afternoon this spring, at the height of the harvest, I drove through the area with Douglas Wankel, a former Drug Enforcement Administration official who was hired by the United States government in 2003 to organize its counter-narcotics effort here.

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