我当时在想一个海星或一只猫。

I was thinking of a starfish or a cat.

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当我们离开的时候，我甚至感到有点兴奋，因为我在想所有要去地方——那些我只从书和图片中了解到的陌生而神奇的地方。

When we were leaving, I even felt a little excited because I thought about all the places I was going to see—the strange and magical places I had known only from books and pictures.

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时，我却在想：“我只活一次，有些事最好在还有心情时抓紧时间做完。”

I was thinking, “I only live once. Some things are better done when you feel like doing them.”

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In that moment Sal supplies the answer for why Dean came, "never knew why he had come anyway," and then Sal supplies "except to see me," and his own pain and tears are routed through Laura.

在那刻萨尔说出了为什么迪安会来的理由，“他也搞不清楚为什么来“，然后给了答案,“只为了想看看我“，但他的眼泪在劳拉面前被击溃。

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