I began to write. And immediately I made my first mistake: picked one episode, and wrote it down, out of all context. A random sort of beginning.

我开始写作。我即刻犯下第一个错误：我选取一个片段，把它记下来，完全没有上下文。一种信手拈来的开头。

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My contract expires at the end of the season I would first like to sort out my future.

我的合同将在本赛季后到期，我首先要弄清楚自己的未来在哪。

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"It was a trivial incident - I told her to try and sort it out for herself first of all, and she did, " he says.

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But first I decided to try their glasses out for myself in a sort of test to see if they were effective for me.

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And I talked about the, you know, the experience of sort of going out in the woods and at first being afraid to leave sight of the buildings and people and later on it became being afraid to come back to the sight of buildings and people.

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