"My life is going too fast," Patrick once grumbled as he got into bed. "This whole day went by just like that."

“日子过得太快了，”一次帕特里克上床睡觉得时候咕哝着抱怨，“这一整天就这样过去了。”

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He spent a whole day doing this but none of them was the touchstone.

他花了一整天的时间来做这件事，但没有一件能成为试金石。

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I haven't told him the whole story to this day.

我迄今仍未给他讲完整个故事。

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Indeed, what is the down-to-the-millisecond precision of digital time against this beautiful, whole sense of the day moving imperceptibly across the world, as if in a hush.

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"This is a tragic day for the whole of Belgium, " Mr. Di Rupo said during a news conference in Sion, the capital of the canton of Valais.

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Why did it take a whole day for someone, in this case, a security guard, as reported by KTLA in Downey, Cal, to find her?

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