It's not gossip. I came across it in a book written by a great prophet.

不是谣言。我是在一个有名的预言家写的书里看到的。

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Certainly when I first came across it, my view of human nature was changed irrevocably.

当然在我第一次听说它的时候，我对于人性的看法被无法撤回地改变了。

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Leafing through the maps when younger, I regularly came across it because there's nothing surrounding it for hundreds and hundreds of miles except inhospitable mountains and deserts.

我年轻的时候翻阅地图时经常能见到这个城市，因为在它周围成百上千英里的范围内，除了荒无人烟的高山和沙漠之外一无所有。

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Last year I was virtually ready to drop it and then, I kid you not,that very afternoon,I came across a quote.

去年我真的都要放弃这个讨论了，不开玩笑，那天下午，我看到一句引言。

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And then I think it was two days later,a week later, I came across another quote of somebody saying, Oh,we all die alone.

然后两天还是一周之后，我又看见另一个引言，说我们将孤独而死。

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The Perryville operation, when he came across it in 1995 (then run out of a converted motel in Phoenix), became his calling and his own form of business rehab.

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The 80-page draft score for the Grosse Fugue for Piano-Four Hands, considered a milestone in Beethoven's career, is being displayed briefly at the Palmer Theological Seminary, where a librarian came across it in July.

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This blog I came across describes how hard it can be to even find one.

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