Like so many other grouchy early morning, pre-coffee utterances I make, this one was ludicrously off-key. Things weren't wrong; they were right.

往常一大早牢骚满腹，喝咖啡前总发表意见，这次看来话是走了板儿了。事情没搞错，而且都上道了。

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Like so many other grouchy early morning, pre-coffee utterances I make, this one was ludicrously off-key.

往常一大早牢骚满腹，喝咖啡前总发表意见，这次看来话是走了板儿了。

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So, one morning when I was up early, I decided I was going to eat the elephant. But, just one bite.

因此，某天早上我早起的时候，我决定要去吃掉这头大象。但是，就吃一口。

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Early one morning, a week or so later, I stepped over to the oval mirror in the upstairs hall, as I did every morning before leaving for work.

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So it was that I awoke one morning troubled by a dream I had experienced in the early moments of dawn.

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