可能因为作者是名历史学家而非小说家，所以在尝试理解或想像她的内在生活时有点呆板，但是这是吹毛求疵。

Attempts to understand or imagine her inner life tend to be a bit stilted, perhaps because the author is a historian, not a novelist. But this is a small cavil.

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当别人宽恕我们的时候,我们脑海里都想像着宽恕应该是怎样的,但是，我们心里都清楚，宽恕我们或别人却不是一件容易理解的事.

While we all have a mental image of what forgiveness "should" look like when others forgive us, knowing how to forgive ourselves or someone else isn't as easy to understand.

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