摄影曾经是一件昂贵且耗时费力的事情，仅用于记录生命中的重大事件。

Photography was once an expensive, laborious ordeal reserved for life's greatest milestones.

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唯一可以让她从工作中脱离出来的，她曾经写道，就是“恋爱”，因此，生命中难免会会失去其它一些东西。

The only thing that could deflect her from work, she once wrote, was "being in love", whereupon everything else flew out the window.

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希西家曾经享受与神亲密相交的喜乐，但在他生命中的重要时刻，神却叫他孤立无助，以此考验他的品格，显露他的弱点，为的是要预备他能担当更多的责任。

Hezekiah had enjoyed a close fellowship with God, but at a crucial point in his life God left him alone to test his character, to reveal a weakness, and to prepare him for more responsibility.

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