Every time I made a move to get it some passing eye detected my purpose, and of course I straightened up then, and looked indifferent and pretended that I hadn't been thinking about the pear at all.
每当我想要把梨拿走的时候,总有一些过路的眼睛看出了我的意图,于是我当然就直起了腰,摆出一副无所谓的样子,假装根本没有想过梨的事。
Three days went past, and I was surprised to see it again: all the openings were sewed up by thin and white thread and they looked like the ice crystal on winter's branches in the north.
三天过去了,我惊讶地再次看到:所有的开口都是用细细的白线缝起来的,看上去就像北方冬天树枝上的冰晶。
But to be fair, I looked it up and it seems that a better translation from the Old English would be “You can't eat your cake and have it too.
但是,为了言之成理,我去查阅了相关资料,从古英语中找到了一个比较靠谱的解释:你无法在吃掉蛋糕后还拥有这块儿蛋糕。
I looked it up; he went to American University, both undergraduate and his name is David Nason undergraduate and then he got a law degree at American University.
我查了一下;,他大学本科和研究生都是美国大学毕业的,他叫做大卫·内森,他的专业是法学。
He also mentioned a poemby Rudyard Kipling called If. I didn't recognize what he was referring to immediately but I looked it up and it's a famous poem that you must have seen written in 1910 an inspirational poem.
他同时也提到了拉迪亚德?吉卜林的一首诗歌,名字叫做《如果》,我当时并没有迅速反应出,他到底指的是哪首诗,但是之后我查了一下发现,它是一首你肯定见过的著名的诗歌,写于1910年,一首启发性的诗。
So I went and looked up self in Wikipedia, and I have to read it out.
也就是去维基百科了,因此我去维基百科看了看self的定义。
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