When I came to the Kingdom of Xu last time, I noticed that my friend admired my sword and I decided that when I came back I would give it to him.

我上次到徐国的时候，看到朋友很喜欢我的剑，就决定回来的时候送给他。

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Probably he noticed that I was a bookish boy, likely to sympathize with him, and perhaps he was trying to warn me to avoid being unlike others.

他说这话，也许是因为见我是个书生气的男孩觉得我可能会同情他，也许是在提醒我不要异于常人。

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So he had noticed that it was him I'd asked and not my mother, and also that I had not said I was wondering whether I should go back to school or not.

所以他留意到，我问的是他，不是我的妈妈，而且我还没有说我在琢磨我是不是应该去上学。

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As I handed them to him, I noticed that one had been torn in half and fixed with a piece of blue paper.

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