我完全记得那发紫的脸膛，肿胀的五言。

I recognised well that purple face, — those bloated features.

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我在脑海中计算着音节，五言，七言，五言。

I count in my head: five syllables, seven, five.

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但这是五言体生成之初的必经阶段，而不是固定的成熟模式。

But, this is merely the early necessary path of the geneses of the five-characters-verse, while not the fixedly mature mode.

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