他尝试阅读的这本书可以追溯到很久以前，甚至在第一个字被写出来之前，这是一个关于移民的故事。

The book he's trying to read goes back to long before even the first word was written, and it is a story of migration.

youdao

因为，能说出来的话当然也能够被写出来。

Because, what we can speak out, what we can write down.

youdao

虽然完美的方案也许还没有被写出来，但我确实觉得我们已经在正确的方向上走了很远。

Although the perfect solution may not have been written yet, I do think we are already pretty far into the right direction.

youdao

And I don't know, I used to love to quote from it but then I began to realize I'm only quoting that because it's about a guy's eye being gouged out.

我以前讲课很喜欢从中引用,后来我意识到我引用它只是因为,它写的是一个人的眼珠被刨出来而已

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