It was with this extraordinary procession trooping at his and Maria's heels into a confectioner's in quest if the biggest candy - cane ever made, that he encountered Ruth and her mother.

这一支与众不同的队伍跟在他和玛利亚身后浩浩荡荡地进了一家糖果店，要想寻找最大的手杖糖。正在此时他却碰见了露丝和她的妈妈。

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Then Ruth told her mother-in-law about the one at whose place she had been working. "The name of the man I worked with today is Boaz, " she said.

路得就告诉婆婆说：“ 我今日在一个名叫波阿斯的人那里做工。”

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Ruth shuddered and clung close to her mother.

露丝感到不寒而栗，紧紧地偎到她妈妈怀里。

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Even by December of 1988, when she told her mother, Ruth, and her sisters and friends that she thought she was probably in her eighth month, they all laughed at her, found it hard to believe she was that far along, teased her mercilessly about her size or, more precisely, about her lack of size.

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