Thanks for picking me up.

谢谢你来接我。

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I was born with a recurring nightmare of a great bird picking me up in its claws and dropping me into an empty ocean.

自出生以来，我都反复做着一个噩梦，一只大鸟用它的双爪把我抓起，扔到汪洋大海之中。

youdao

A metaphor that really helps me is that of picking up and putting down rocks.

有一个隐喻，是关于捡起以及扔掉石头的，它对我真的很有启示。

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And for me it's fun because I may not know the novel that you end up picking, and so it is a kind of challenge for me to take a novel that you've chosen and come to grips with it myself It may be one that I know.

我也觉得很好玩,因为我可能不知道你们最后选择的小说，所以对我来说,认真对待你们选的一本书很有挑战性,可能是一本我知道的书。

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This happened to me repeatedly, because picking up a new weapon automatically equips it.

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But in my home, I was trying to hold on to as much of the traditional female role as possible, partly because my husband wasn't backing me up in terms of picking up the slack in our family relationships.

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More likely, however, you will end up like me and my friends, picking at fries and feeling hopeless.

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