Rosenberg is giving us an anecdote from the trenches, and yet it slips very quickly into a sense of fable.

罗宾森给我们呈现战壕中的轶事，它很快成为一个无稽之谈。

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There's an interesting anecdote about Strauss, and that is that on his deathbed he said to his daughter, Alice -He said, "Alice, it's the funniest thing.

这里有件关于施特劳斯的趣闻轶事,在他临终之时,他和女儿爱丽丝说,他和女儿说"爱丽丝,有件事太好笑了"

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