I thought then and I think now that his attack of "must" was already passing off; in which case he would merely wander harmlessly about until the mahout came back and caught him.

我当时认为，而且现在还是这样认为：这头象的发情期反应已经过去了；这种情况下它顶多也就是随便溜达溜达，不会再祸害乡里，只消等驯象人回来把它带走就是了。

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Then he came back over here, and cried, easily, for two hours.

后来他又返回那儿，放声大哭，足足哭了两个小时。

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He was sleeping less and less, eating nothing but bread and tomatoes and yellow supermarket cheese, and then, at last, she came back.

他睡得越来越少，只吃点面包和番茄，抹点儿超市买的奶酪。终于，她回来了。

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and then he came back and he's, he was more resilient than, you know, than before.

然后他回来了，比以前更有忍耐力。

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So poor Lily is also an orphan, at least in the emotional sense, if not in actual reality. Her father, of course, had run off from her mother right after she had gotten pregnant, and then I suppose he came back.

可怜的莉莉也是个孤儿，至少从感情的角度上看是,如果你认为在现实情况不是，她的父亲，当然，在她母亲怀孕后,就开溜了，然后我猜测他又回来了。

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