Working at her sewing machine, Jia says there is nothing left she wants to buy.

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He goes back and gambles again, but he has nothing left to wager except his wife, so he puts her and gambles her.

他回到祖国并且再次求赌,但除了妻子,他别无赌资,所以他以她作赌注

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And the book just tells you that, right, in one of those palm"-- the ordinary event which is really trickery, a suggestion ; that nothing has been left to chance in the novel; nothing is ordinary.

这本书也这么告诉大家了，对了，就是在,手里的东西）看似普通的事件实则是个奸计,它是一个提醒，提醒大家这部小说里没有什么事是巧合;,任何事都不普通。

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