我们经常在用尽了所有其它方法之后，我们才祈祷。

We often pray only after we have exhausted all other means.

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这也不是真的，实际上，我们收到好多邮件说他们经常在用了同一个名字的有些20到30次(或到某一个数字)后找到最好的东西。

This isn't true, and in fact we've had many mails from people who say that they often find their best stuff after 20 or 30 games of the same name, going up a number at a time.

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Before that, people used to put papers in piles, tie them up in ribbons, and put them on bookshelves or in drawers.

在此之前，人们经常将纸堆起来，用丝带卷好系上，然后放在书架上或是抽屉里。

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This is a metaphor that Derrida frequently uses, as a kind of writing on the ear.

这是德里达经常用的一个比喻，就像在耳朵上书写。

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