在他自己心里，他也知道那根弦终于在颤动了，那根弦一直蛰伏着，不曾被察觉。

In himself, too, he knew that it was vibrating at last, that chord hitherto dormant and unsuspected.

youdao

在我就此探根问底之前，我一直以为这个含义跟瘾君子手臂上注射的痕迹有关。

Before I looked this up I had always assumed that the tracks in an addict's arm were the source for the title.

youdao

德语是他的母语，在15岁被犹太裔父母出于安全考虑送往英格兰前，他的童年一直在德国西北部的格德林根度过。

His German was native, from a childhood spent in Gardelegen in north-west Germany until, at 15, his Jewish parents sent him to England for safety.

youdao

Suppose I had a rope, that stretched from that into the room, all the way across-- to this end of the room.

假设我有一根绳子，从屋子的这一端，一直伸展到-,屋子的这一端。

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