The grandmother jumped up in her fright and asked him what that meant.

奶奶吓得跳起来，问他这是怎么回事。

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Family in growing numbers has only one child, therefore, parents oftentimes focus all their attentions on that child and exert much pressure on him or her.

只育有一个孩子的家庭越来越多，因此，父母往往把所有的注意力都放在那个孩子身上，对其施加很大的压力。

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She told him that fright had paralyzed her fingers and that terrible things were happening in the house.

她告诉他，恐惧使她的手指麻痹了，房子里发生了可怕的事情。

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Would it not be better for him to die quickly, and go to wait for her in that blessed place of the future?

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A bourgeois or a burgher was somebody who lived in a city and assumed that some of the justice that was levied against him or her would be the result of decisions taken locally.

布尔乔亚"意指住在城市里的居民,在他们看来依法纳税,是地方决策者强加于他们的

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