So, if a stranger slips on a banana peel and lands on his butt, I might laugh because I'm not overcome by compassion.

所以，看到陌生人踩蕉皮,摔个屁股着地，我会笑,因为我对他的同情不是很强烈。

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I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree, And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again.

我真想去爬白桦树，沿着雪白的树干，爬上乌黑的树枝，爬向那天心，直到树身再支撑不住，树梢碰着地，把我放下来。

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