For all the narrative skill with which the author retells this grim tale, the book contains some frustrating dead ends.

尽管被作者重新讲述的这个残酷故事采用了所有的叙事技巧，这个故事还是包含着一些令人沮丧的死角。

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Instead of an old book, they found the now dead, balding, short-tailed rat, which they summarily removed.

房间没有老书，她们发现了已经死掉、秃毛断尾的老鼠，并很快做了处理。

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The book is dead, I keep hearing as I sit writing yet another in a room lined with them.

当我坐在排满书籍的房间里写着另一本书的时候，耳朵里充塞的是这样的声音：书籍完蛋了。

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But you can't yet be in it yet, because when people write to us and ask how they get in the book, we sent back a postcard saying: drop dead.

但我们还不能为现在的人撰写传记，有时人们会给我们写信,问怎么样才能纳入传记中，我们就寄回明信片，上面写着，活人无资格。

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Smith mimicked the endless, generation-counting longueurs of the Old Testament so skillfully that he rendered the book dead as literature while giving it credibility as a sacred text: a book as boring as this could have been inspired only by the breath of God.

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Since 1978, as El Salvador slid into disorder, she had been compiling for the archdiocese a book of the dead.

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