It's no mystery to him why he did what he did - "I would be such a horrible human being to watch someone suffer like that and not even try to help," he says-but he can't quite figure out how.

对他来说为什么他要那么做并不是秘密——“我可能看到别人遭受那样的痛苦会害怕，甚至不想去帮助。”他虽然这样说，但还是不能完全解释怎样会发生这样的事。

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It's like a murder mystery.

这就像是一宗神秘谋杀案。

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Yet what it's actually like to experience a dream if you're not human remains a mystery.

不过，人类之外的生物做梦时的感受究竟是怎样的，这仍是未解之谜。

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No mystery about what it's like to be a ball point pen.

变成圆珠笔本身并没有什么神秘的。

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No mystery about what it's like to be a cell phone.

作为手机也一样。

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It's like trying to solve a mystery while one of those self-guided tour headsets is dangling from your ears.

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And the way the skinny neck disappeared between the animal's breastplate and shell-a squirming, live thing slipping hidden into dead stony stuff-it seemed suddenly like the Mystery of Mysteries, the very source of Life .

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