Instead,they looked for the letter where they would have hidden it.

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A stranger with a flair for cocktail party descriptive prose might have commented that the room, at a quick glance, looked as if it had once been tenanted by two struggling twelve-year-old lawyers or researchists.

一个鸡尾酒派对的调酒师,也能看一眼就对这件房子作出评论，他会看得出房间曾被两个奋斗的,12岁的律师或研究员租过。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Let's move on. Neither of these critics -neither Fish nor Hartman discusses one of the most celebrated aspects of this last simile that we've looked at, and I have a little hunch that there's a reason for their neglect.

接着往下看，没有哪个评论家,-费什或者哈特曼，都没有讨论,上一个比喻中最为著名的一个方面，我有些许预感，他们对这点的忽视是有因可循的。

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Lincoln,for his part, may have looked like a simple farmer.

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