On the stair leading up into the disinfectant-smelling twilight of a rooming house, she saw an old man huddled, shaking with grief she couldn't hear.

登上梯子，在一间散发着,消毒水气味的昏暗公寓里，她看到了一个老人缩成一团，以一种他无法感受的哀伤颤抖着。

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It's the story of the old opera house and the ghost of the opera, right?

这个故事讲的是一所老歌剧院和歌剧院的幽灵，对吧？

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When Milton met him, Galileo would have been old and blind, not unimportant to the later Milton, and Galileo was under house arrest at his home in Fiesole.

当弥尔顿遇见他是，伽利略已经又老又瞎，而这点对后来的弥尔顿至关重要，伽利略当时被软禁在他菲索尔的家中。

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And it begins with an auctioneer selling various articles from the old opera house.

刚开始的时候就是一个拍卖家在卖老歌剧院的各种物品。

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