西奥说起了他读到过的佛教书籍，艾里克斯给我们讲了修建铁路的闲闻轶事，这是他从斯蒂夫·安伯·劳斯的书中看来的。
Theo talked about his Buddhist readings, and Alex gave us choice tidbits from the book he was reading, Stephen Ambrose's sweeping history of the building of the transcontinental railroad.
从我的童年到青年时期，大家一直把我看做一个游手好闲的人，其实我一直在为个人的目标私下忙着，那就是练习写作。
All through my boyhood and youth, I was known as an idler; and yet I was always busy on my own private end, which was to learn to write.
这艘船上载了一群性格鲜明的人物，从受狂犬病折磨的“野蛮生意人”（富人由于无能而得到的半喜剧教训）到在头等舱里闲晃的珠宝盗贼。
The ship affords a rich array of characters, from a "brutal financier" suffering from rabies (a half-comic lesson in the impotence of wealth) to a jewel thief who swans about in first class.
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