I actually went off and visited Bill up in Seattle the summer before I started at Stanford.

实际上我来斯坦福的前一年暑假,还经常去西雅图看他。

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So I moved here about a year... a year and a half ago.

我是大概一年前……一年半前搬到这里的。

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Barth wrote a famous essay just the year before these stories came out all in one volume. They had been written over a series of years, got a lot of exposure--called "The Literature of Exhaustion."

在写完这一卷故事的前一年,巴斯写了一篇著名的论文，在60年代，叫《枯竭的文学》

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a summer before I was going to graduate,

有一年夏天，毕业前的夏天，

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The same results also showed up about a year and a half ago.

一年半前也得到同样的结果。

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