想想看，我母亲写了那么多部书，我竟然一无所知！

To think that my mother wrote all those books and I never knew!

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但当你退一步，仔细回想，让我想想，我当时在吃三明治，然后突然，三明治变成了自由女神像，不过这个女神是我的母亲。

But if you step back and reflect on it, "Well, let's see, I was eating a sandwich and suddenly the sandwich was the Statue of Liberty, except the Statue of Liberty was my mother."

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所以第一，腾出一点时间好好想想母亲喜欢什么，爱好、兴趣之类的。

So first, spend a moment think about what mom likes, considering her hobbies and interests.

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We have to pair that with that other evocation of the landscape to see this alternate idea, that actually this distanced criss-crossing of the landscape could be damaging. Think of those other violent knight's moves, like skipping past the mother's death.

我们得把关于风景的另一个回忆组成一对去理解,这个额外的想法，这个疏远的,十字纵横的景色描写可能是毁坏性的，想想其他的暴力的,迂回前进，比如跳过母亲死亡的方式。

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