Mr Murakami's narrative flows slowly, and his portrayal of the dead hours of a city creates a rounded sense of place.

村上先生以缓慢的笔调展开叙述，描述了都市死气沉沉的时光，营造出强烈的地域感。

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Or that time in the deep Ozarks when someone spent several hours intermittently knocking on my door in the dead of night.

还有一次，远在小城欧萨克，夜晚静悄悄的，有人过一段时间就来敲打我的房门，一连持续了几个小时。

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For hours afterward, she didn’t know Esbati’s whereabouts as his phone went dead in the waters off the island.

四个小时后，米什赖特怎么都打不通埃斯巴蒂的手机，因为他手机进了水。

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Eight people are dead in Burkina Faso, where meteorologists say fell in just 12 hours,last week.

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Authorities do not know how William Spengler, 62, who was found dead hours after the four firefighters were shot, obtained the weapon or weapons he used or why he opened fire.

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So long as only insomniacs and travellers want to buy car insurance at 3am, working in the dead hours will probably continue to be the lot of only a small minority of workers.

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The pope could actually be dead for hours, and the world fully informed of the fact, before the news came officially from the Vatican press office.

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