然而，它却被鬼使神差地送到了约150英里以外的Saix。 由于无法找到收件人，此信就一直躺在当地邮局的分理室。

Instead it arrived at the village of Saix, some 150 miles away, where it remained in a local sorting office because the addressee could not be found.

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在苔丝来后的好几天里，克莱尔老是坐在那儿聚精会神地读书，读杂志，或者是读他刚收到的邮局寄来的乐谱，几乎没有注意到桌子上苔丝的出现。

For several days after Tess's arrival Clare, sitting abstractedly reading from some book, periodical, or piece of music just come by post, hardly noticed that she was present at table.

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拿邮局这个简单的例子就可以很好地说明在消息服务器中所发生的过程。

A simple post office example does a fine job of illustrating the processes that occur in a message server.

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