你很奇怪地说：难道房间里空气不好吗？

You said very strangely: In the room isn't the air good?

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“你真奇怪，”他坦率地说，同时也很迷惑，“虎莲跟你一模一样。”

"You are so queer," he said, frankly puzzled, "and Tiger Lily is just the same."

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“这可真奇怪，因为她一定知道的。”他自言自语地说。

"It is strange though, for she must know," he said to himself.

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It goes off in this strange digression. It seems like his mind has simply wandered, as it does, from one version of the story to another. But the mention of the machines is not incidental.

这故事就这么奇怪地离题说着，好像他的思想,在游离，从故事的一方面跳到,另一方面，但是提到机器并不是偶然。

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