接下去奇怪的事情发生了。

But then something weird happened.

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奇怪的事情发生了。

Something strange happens.

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但那天晚上他又一次经过那个加油站时，一件奇怪的事情发生了。

But then, as he walked by the gas station later that evening, something strange happened.

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So in the fourth stanza we as readers have no idea where we are or when it is the speaker of the poem imagines himself to be speaking, and it's at this point that something quite strange happens.

所以作为读者，对第四段我们不知道,自己在哪，诗的代言者在哪,什么时候想说话，而且就是在这时非常奇怪的事情发生了。

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