在纸街的大宅里，如果电话只响一声，而且你一接起来就断掉的话，你就知道那是某人为马拉打来的。

In the house on Paper Street, if the phone rang only once and you picked it up and the line was dead, you knew it was someone trying to reach Marla.

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在加来（法国北部港市——译注），他在空旷的街道上逛游了一个小时，在寂静的商店里没有听到一声电话铃的响声。

At Calais, he wandered for an hour through the deserted streets, and in the silent shops listened in vain to telephones that never rang.

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事实上，许多年后，我在哈佛广场看到一位女士在独自吃午餐，我走上前去，打了声招呼，在餐巾上写下了我的名字和电话号码，让她有空联系我。

In fact, a couple of years later I saw a woman eating lunchalone in Harvard Square, walked up, said hello, wrote my name and number downon a napkin and asked her to call me.

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