After a couple of hours of writing in what he calls a dreamlike state, he goes back to bed, then rises at 8:30 to edit his work.

在经过几个小时他自己所称的“梦幻状态”的写作之后，他会先上床睡觉，然后再在8点30分起床编辑他的工作。

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On Christmas night, a dozen girls piled onto the bed which was the dress circle, and sat before the blue and yellow chintz curtains in a most flattering state of expectancy.

圣诞之夜，十二个女孩子挤在花楼——一张床—-的上头，坐在黄蓝二色混合的磨光印花帘幕前面，翘首以盼，焦急地等着看戏。

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IN 1974 Henry Kissinger, then America’s secretary of state, told the first world food conference in Rome that no child would go to bed hungry within ten years.

1974年，在罗马举行的第一届世界粮食会议上，当时的美国国务卿亨利•基辛格宣称10年内将没有小孩再饿着肚子入睡。

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Diplomats and heads of state bed down surrounded by antiques, jewel-toned silk walls, crystal chandeliers and marble bathrooms at the 138-room Hotel Imperial Vienna, which was built as the residence of the Prince of Wurttemberg, a European aristocrat, in 1863.

BBC: Business trip: Vienna

The state most afflicted by bed bugs is a bit of a surprise: Ohio.

FORBES: America's Most Bed Bug-Infested Cities

And the government insists that the state of the economy will inevitably be felt on the sea bed, like everywhere else.

BBC: Cash shortage stretches to sea bed