Central idea: the story about the home, a deserter in the way home met all sorts of people, the war changed the way people experience life in the war dead, devoid of humanity in the war.

中心思想：讲述回家的故事，一个逃兵在归途中遇到了各种各样的人，战争改变了人们的遭遇，生命在战争中消亡，人性在战争中泯灭。

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This was made painfully obvious to me when trying to board a train to Xi 'an at Beijing's central railway station. The security entrance to the station was, rather than a line, a crush of humanity.

当我在北京站乘火车去西安时，这种感觉让我很痛苦，走进安检入口时几乎被挤碎。

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One of the things that people who make enormous amounts of money intuitively understand (and the rest of us miss) is that the central magic of money, and what makes it among the greatest inventions of humanity, is that it can be transformed into anything.

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