每天他都在想，为什么他不是生来就是一只鸟呢？尽管那只鸟多次告诉他，他长得这么大，而且游泳技术这么好，这是很幸运的。

Every day he would think why he wasn't born to be a bird even though the bird told him many times he was so lucky to be so big and such a good swimmer.

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“但是为什么他回不来？”泪珠止不住地掉下来。我儿子不是特爱小鸟依人的，但这次他抓住我，紧紧地。

"But why isn't he coming back?" Lots of tears. My son is not particularly cuddly, but he was holding onto me, tight.

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对他来说为什么他要那么做并不是秘密——“我可能看到别人遭受那样的痛苦会害怕，甚至不想去帮助。”他虽然这样说，但还是不能完全解释怎样会发生这样的事。

It's no mystery to him why he did what he did - "I would be such a horrible human being to watch someone suffer like that and not even try to help," he says-but he can't quite figure out how.

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That's why he calls his essay "On Literary Evolution," not literary "revolution" but literary "evolution."

这就是为什么他的论文题目是，文学进化“,不是，文学革命，而是，文学进化“

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And that's not very English and I think that's why he is a bit more shocking, not on English television,

那不是很有英国范儿，我想这就是为什么他有一些骇人的，不是在英国电视上，

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Why not my big brother Aaron, he's a much better public speaker?

为什么不是我哥哥亚伦，他是更优秀的演讲家？

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