I tried to explain to him what it was and that it had been to the moon, but his life is so different from mine or yours that he had no context in which he could understand what I was saying.

我尝试不止一次向他解释什么是脱水鸡肉，以及它被送上过月球。但是他的生活与你我的太不相同，因此他完全不能理解我说的事。

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She had not had the key, no one had had the key, there had not been any one key to the church, but several keys to several different doors, and they had all been left outside in the locks.

她没有那把钥匙，没有人有那把钥匙，那座教堂没有一把钥匙，但几个门配有几把钥匙，这些钥匙并没有留在外面的锁上。

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If there had been no Charlie Chaplin, the history of world cinema would have been different.

如果没有查理·卓别林，世界电影史就会不一样了。

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If that series of circumstances had been even slightly different, there would have been no egg-headed Homo sapiens.

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But even if it had been, that may not have helped: How would a doctor know to report a heart attack that had been caused by Vioxx, if it looked no different from any other heart attack?

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