“I myself did not want to sleep, ” hewrites, “because I had been living for a long time with the knowledgethat if I ever shut my eyes in the dark and let myself go, my soulwould go out of my body.”

正如他在小说中所写，“我本人并不想要睡觉，因为长期以来我一直知道如果我在暗处闭上眼，忘乎所以，我的灵魂就会出窍。”

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Once my friend Lucy missed the time we had ordered, she was late for half an hour, when she arrive, I got angry and said I did not want to see her again.

曾经我的朋友露西错过了我们约定的时间，她迟到了半个小时，当她来到的时候，我很生气，说再也不想见到她。

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While I wasn't especially bent on winning for my own sake, I was keenly aware that my family, school, hometown and the local sponsoring newspaper had invested an awful lot of time, cash and care into my trip to Washington, and I did not want to fail them.

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