There was Brill, lying in bed, and little by little you slip into the skin of this other being, and find out who he is, and the novel starts to emerge out of this.

他说，“那是布里尔，躺在床上，一点一点，你滑入另一个人的身体，找出他是谁，故事便从这冒出来。”

youdao

Click-click-click went the garage door back down, then I'd slip through the house, timing my footsteps to match my dad's snores, and collapse in my bed feeling like the coward of the county.

打开车库门，弯着腰进去，小声地从房子里穿过，算好时间，我爸打一下呼，我走一步，这样走到我的房间后，整个人就摊倒在自己的床上，感觉自己是这个小镇的胆小鬼。

youdao

Surely he could not teach at the university; surely he could not slip into the man’s bed unnoticed.

当然他不能去大学教书，不能偷偷溜到教授床上不被人发现。

youdao

'Father says the earth got too hot underneath, like you do in bed sometimes, so it just hunched up its shoulders, and the sea had to slip off, like the blankets do off us, and the shoulder was left sticking out, and turned into dry land.

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