It is a clever and gripping novel, yet something is missing from its heart.

这是一部构思巧妙、引人入胜的小说，不过在精神上还缺少点什么。

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The note could look like a school girl’s scrawls about her dream guy. All that was missing was a drawing of a heart with the names John and Janet written in it.

纸上的内容就像是一个女生想念她的梦中情人时胡写出来的，旁边就差再画上一颗写著约翰和珍妮特的名字、被箭穿过的心了。

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Each Valentine's Day and on their wedding anniversary, he would buy her flowers and gifts, trying to compensate materially for his missing heart.

每到情人节或是结婚纪念日，他都会给妻子买花、买礼物，希望从物质上弥补心灵上的缺憾。

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One of the best-known traditional Iraqi lullabies, is a particularly sad one, about the heart-ache of missing relatives.

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Jindal and Boehner spoke from the heart but both are still missing an important point.

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Doctors carrying out an autopsy in Amritsar found that his heart, kidneys and stomach were missing.

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