Except for a patina of charisma, he was like a thousand other bright young men in Toronto.

除了小有点儿魅力外，他和多伦多其他众多机灵的年轻小伙子没有两样。

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Martin noticed him no more that evening, except once when he observed him chaffing with great apparent success with several of the young women.

那个晚上马丁没有再留心他。只有一回注意到他踉几个年轻妇女开着玩笑，显然非常成功。

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She never saw her mother's face, who died young. She has no information about relatives, except the information that a brother is now living with his family overseas.

她从来没有见过她那很早就过世的母亲，除了知道她有一个兄弟和他的家人住在国外外没有亲属的消息。

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And not a single young person in the room except my son, who was then a teenager who would tag along and see his father testify.

却没有一个年轻人在场,除了我儿子，是当时唯一的青少年,除了他没人跟着父亲参加听证会。

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And, if you skip over to 215, this image comes back of this mother: "All cars had disappeared except his station wagon. His pregnant young wife was now getting into it with her baby and the other more or less canceled child."

还有，如果你翻到215页，这个妈妈的形象会再次出现：,“所有的车都不见了，只剩下他的小汽车，他,他怀孕的妻子正抱着婴儿上车，那个惹是生非的小男孩,也上去了“

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It advises her not to take out any more loans, except for her young son's education.

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Noone cared about the Androids except a couple young girls who were waiting for me to stop playing with the demo model.

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Given this scenario, every single one of us -- except the poor young woman herself -- would recognize that she is not herself, that something is very wrong, that she has an illness.

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