Since I was listening to my gut I expected her to stop by in the next day or two and back out and give me a run-of-the mill excuse, but she didn't.

倾听自己的本能，我盼望她能在第二天或第三天来找我，告诉我她去不了，给我一个普通的借口。 但是她没有。

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"I was reading aloud, mummy, but i wasn't listening," explained the child.

女儿解释说，“我在朗读，可我没有在听啊!”

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I realize that my friend had good intentions but she was just not listening.

我意识到我的朋友心意是好的，只不过她根本没有在倾听。

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But I was in the courtroom, listening to the murderer testify.

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But then, I looked outside as I was listening to them talk and I saw some young boys playing in a vacant lot across the street, and they were just throwing rocks at an old apartment building that was boarded up.

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