The twenty-five years I have lived since then tapered to a palpitating point and vanished. This is a remarkable passage to me.

那以后生活的二十五年，就惭渐缩小成一个颤栗的点,以致终于消失了，这个段落非常值得注意。

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It's not meant to be more than five, ten minutes of work, but the point of the question, -15, 20 minutes of work, but the point of the question is to motivate people to keep up with the material and do the readings.

几分钟就能完成,这个作业的目的,要十几到二十分钟完成吧,这个作业的目的在于激励大家,跟上课程的进度并去阅读材料

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