The sudden noise put her off her game.

突然的嘈杂声干扰了她的比赛。

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What started her off on that crazy idea?

她怎么会有那样古怪的念头呢？

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Jamie whisked her off to Paris for the weekend.

杰米匆匆把她带到巴黎去度周末。

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She was famous for her beauty. Madame Pierre Gautreau is wearing a low-cut black dress that shows off her pale skin.

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So poor Lily is also an orphan, at least in the emotional sense, if not in actual reality. Her father, of course, had run off from her mother right after she had gotten pregnant, and then I suppose he came back.

可怜的莉莉也是个孤儿，至少从感情的角度上看是,如果你认为在现实情况不是，她的父亲，当然，在她母亲怀孕后,就开溜了，然后我猜测他又回来了。

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In our hallway, ablaze with welcoming lights, my Lolita peeled off her sweater, shook her gemmed hair, stretched towards me two bare arms, raised one knee. "Carry me upstairs, please. I feel sort of romantic tonight."

在自家的门厅里，欢迎的灯光大亮，洛丽塔脱下,套衫，摇摇晶光闪亮的头发，向我伸出两只裸露的胳膊，抬起一直膝盖：“请抱我上楼去，我觉得今晚有些,浪漫，“

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He broached the subject of taking her off life support and our mom became hysterical.

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But before you write her off as another, well, D-list attention seeker, recognize her savvy.

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The arrival of spring in Cairo would set her off planning our summer getaways.

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