他试图说话，但这一次，他已说不出声。

He tried to speak, but for once, his voice had left him.

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她的手回应着，试图说话，但是她已经精疲力竭。

She squeezed back and tried to speak again, but she was too exhausted.

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但是，在第一次注射后，迪亚兹仍然有反应，他试图说话时，目光斜视、表情扭曲。

But after the first injection, Diaz continued to move, squint and grimace as he tried to mouth words.

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The relationship between the depth of the speaker's feeling and the obscurity of Lucy in the world is the irony that the speaker wants to lay hold of and that reconciles what seem like disparate facts in the poem.

说话者感情的深度,和Lucy现实世界的阻碍,是一种讽刺，说话者试图,在诗里协调不可能的事情。

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