“I’m sorry for having missed class the other day, ” I began, and because I felt obliged to explain my absence I told them the truth.

“很抱歉错过了上次的课程，”我这样开始，因为我觉得必须解释一下缺课的原因。 我要把真实的情况告诉他们。

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For some reason I can’t explain, our watches had stopped—perhaps because we had forgotten to wind them—and without watches we felt as if time, too, had frozen.

为什么这样我也解释不清，我们的手表都停了——也许因为我们都忘记给表上弦了——没有了手表我们感觉时间好像也冻结了。

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When I heard about them, I felt threatened, because I thought my mother was saying, 'You could be replaced.

当我第一次听说她们时，我感到很恐惧，因为我想到我母亲说的你可能被取代。

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