A notoriously absentminded professor was one day observed walking along the street with one foot continually in the gutter, the other on the pavement.

有一天，人们看见一个有名的心不在焉的老师在路上走，他的一只脚一直踏在街沟里，另一只脚踩在人行道上。

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With absentminded unease, I stroll to the window.

怀着茫然的不安，我信步走到窗前。

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I looked around to realize that the school had become populated while I'd been sitting there, absentminded.

我抬起头看四周，这才发觉在我心不在焉地坐在这里的时候，学校里已经挤满了人。

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Don't be fooled by the absentminded shtick.

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His lunch, which he ate on his own in an enormous, empty dining room while reading a book under the absentminded gaze of the elderly maid, and the black-and-white gaze of his deceased wife looking out from photographs in ornate silver frames, was light: soup and a small portion of fish and mashed potatoes, some of which he would allow to go cold.

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