You might think nostalgically about the toys you cared about when you were a child, but what is making you smile now is not the thing itself but the memory of it.

你也许会怀念儿时的玩具，但是让你真正会心一笑的往往只是回忆本身而不是某个具体的东西本身。

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I had what I thought was a fine closing: I pointed out that a child born tonight will have almost no memory of the twentieth century.

我做了一个自认为很好的结尾：我指出，“今后出生的孩子对20世纪几乎不会有什么印象。”

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Yet my heart is sweet with the memory of the first fresh jasmines that filled my hands when I was a child.

然而，我回忆起孩提时第一次捧在手里的洁白茉莉，心里充满了甜蜜的回忆。

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The stories that emerged ranged from an emergency dispatcher's memory of an imminent suicide to a son discovering he was not his father's child.

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