本书不止是一本杂集，而且也讲述一个男人如何与最古老的行动方式（双脚行动的方式）而钟爱一生的故事。

This book is no mere miscellany, but the story of a man’s love affair with the oldest means of locomotion: one foot in front of the other.

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一点点地，你一生的故事就这样重现。如果家人和朋友也参与进来，你也许还可以了解到他们不为你所知的一面。

Little by little, you reconstruct the story of your life - and if your family and friends do the same, you might learn new things about people you thought you knew well.

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These stories, the stories we hear from earliest childhood on, shape us in some very meaningful sense for the rest of our lives.

这些故事，我们从小听到大的故事，形塑了一些我们一生,最有意义的观念。

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Mythologies are the lives or tales of the lives of gods, tales of the lives of the gods. In pagan religions the gods are born, and they live lives very similar to human lives but on a grand scale and then they die. They might be reborn too.

神话记载了众神的生活故事，众神的一生，在异教里，神是受孕而生的，他们群居，并且生活习惯和人类非常相似,他们也会死亡，也许还会重生。

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