Telling myself that I was merely an experienced writer guiding the young writer across the hall, I offered suggestions for characters, conflicts and endings for her tales.

当我为年轻作家的故事人物、冲突和结局提供建议时，我告诉自己，我只是一个有经验的作家，引导她穿过写作大厅而已。

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A young boy gives me an umbrella and two monks lead me across the sandy courtyard past a stone pagoda towards the Hall of the White Lotus.

一个小男孩给了我一把伞，两个和尚领着我穿过沙院，经过一座石塔，来到白莲殿。

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It is smaller than I'd imagined, a huddle of neat, white-walled buildings arranged around a tall prayer-hall, which an unsmiling young woman, with the obligatory red robe and crew cut, leads me to.

比我想象的要小，围绕高处的一间诵经堂，有一群整洁的白色房子。一位不苟言笑的年轻女人带我到诵经堂，她穿着红色袍子，留着平头。

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The young woman waiting in the arrivals hall looks anxious, her small mouth pinched and unsmiling.

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