因为他们觉得它吃起来很可口——它们是靠牛蒡的叶子活着的，因此才种植牛蒡。

For they thought it tasted so delicate--lived on dock-leaves, and therefore burdock seeds were sown.

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“当人们知道这一点后，他们似乎吃惊极了，这可能是因为我仍然活着，走来走去。”她说。

"It seems that when people find out about it, they're astonished, and possibly because I'm still walking around," she said.

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仅此一个事实便可解释为什么成功的有创意的人们一直以不停地创作来度过时日；他们必须这样做，他们创造是因为，这就是使他们活着的部分原因。

That one fact alone explains why successful creative people keep creating well past the time in which it's necessary for them to do so; they create because it's a part of what makes them come alive.

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In fact, the London newspaper at that time and popular opinion sympathized with them, Dudley and Stevens, and the paper said if they weren't motivated by affection and concern for their loved ones at home and their dependents, surely they wouldn't have done this.

事实上，当时伦敦的报纸,以及舆论，是很同情达德利和斯蒂芬斯的，报纸上说，要不是因为他们,为了能活着见到家中的挚爱亲朋，他们肯定不会这么做的。

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