I was braver now than last year, and there deciding what to do with my little concubine who was now 60 inches tall and weighed 90 pounds."

我现在比去年勇敢多了，到了那儿再决定拿这个小老婆,怎么办，她现在60英寸高，90磅重，“

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When the bombs went off in London last year, I thought about Yeats and what he might have thought or written about this.

去年伦敦爆炸案发生时，我想到了叶芝,我想象他会想些什么,他会为此写些什么。

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