The Rev. Awdry continued his work as a minister even while publishing Thomas stories, but Christopher Awdry says his father always kept his life as an author and his life as a clergyman separate.

瑞福•威尔伯特•奥德瑞在出版火车头托马斯故事集的同时仍然从事着牧师的工作。 但据克里斯托夫说他父亲从事的这两个职业并没有出现相互影响的情况。

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Back then, people saw homesickness as a dangerous and even fatal disease, says Susan Matt, author of homesickness: an American History.

《乡愁：一种美国历史》一书的作者苏珊·马特表示，那时人们将乡愁视为一种危险、甚至致命的疾病。

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But, as Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, author of an extensive study of the subject, points out, even successful departing bosses often try to ease the pain of re-entry into normal life by demanding to keep the trappings of their heroic stature: limousines, offices, private jets.

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"I'm seeing more and more people not even batting an eye about going away alone for a couple of weeks, " says Iris Krasnow, who, as author of "The Secret Lives of Wives, " interviewed more than 200 women about their marriages.

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