Once I gave a speech to a group on caring about the world and people around, doing things like picking up trash and making things look neat in public spaces where apathy usually reigns.

一次我给一群人做了一个关于关心公益事业的演讲，内容是关于做一些例如捡垃圾或者清理环境的事情，可是下面人的反应很冷淡。

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Imagine - sighing, picking up the pieces, putting things back in order and move on as if nothing happened.

想象一下，叹息、收拾残局、整理好一切以及继续就好像什么都没有发生过一样。

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She hung up her coat and stepped out of her shoes and walked around the room picking up things She stuck the newspaper in the wastebasket .

她挂上外衣，脱了鞋子，在房间里走来走去收拾东酉。 她把报纸塞到垃圾桶里。

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There's a lot of focus on like little motions that people do, like picking up cigarettes and dropping things.

有很多的焦点，像是人们的小动作，像是拿起香烟或放下东西。

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