So for those of you who haven't read, Richard's father works nights and sleeps during the day, and during the day the children therefore have to be very quiet.

可能有人不清楚，理查的父亲日出而息，日落而作，因而小孩白天不敢出声。

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I was afterwards told and he ordered that I be kept abed, that I be kept quiet, that my very life depended upon it.

之后觉察到医生来了，A，doctor，was，called—,他要我躺在床上，静养，不然性命不保。

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