Executives at the posher kind of supermarket must be longing to know how the Norwegians did it.

高档一些的超市的主管们一定很想知道挪威人是怎样做到的。

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As the smallest child of his family, Alex is always longing for the time when he should be able to be independent.

作为家里最小的孩子，亚历克斯总是渴望自己能够独立的那一天。

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Then I could have one of those little white houses in some New England town, and there would be a sun porch and a salary; and when I got to school there would be these happy faces longing to see me!

这样我就可以拥有某个新英格兰的小镇中的那些小白房子中的一所，那里会有一座阳台和一份薪水；并且当我到学校的时候哪里会有些渴望见到我的笑脸！

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So, in a way, by longing to be where they were when they were children, by longing to inhabit that time, as well, he wants to become them.

所以，他用一种方式去怀念，渴望去这群人还是孩子时，生活过的地方，渴望经历那种时光，也渴望成为他们之一。

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She sometimes writes as though America were awash with role-confused microserfs longing to be self-fulfilled furnace-men.

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