I stopped looking for shortcuts - I had been a huge fan of shortcuts - and started actually doing the work required to get things done.

我不再事事寻求捷径——我曾经总是想走捷径——并开始按要求完成任务。

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Maybe that was part of the problem: searching. I found myself agreeing when I heard John Locke, the main character on “Lost, ” say, “I found it just like you find anything else, I stopped looking.”

我同意《迷失》中的主角约翰•洛克说过的一句话，他说，“我发现那就像你找什么东西，我会停止观望。”

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I began looking ahead, stopped worrying about trucks and about what was moving on either side.

我开始朝前看，不再担心卡车和两边移动的东西。

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I was walking down a suburban street seeing other people's children and I stopped to see one in a carriage and I thought it was a sweet child, but I was looking for my child in his face.

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As we began down a central rough-hewn path between the buildings, I stopped, suddenly aware that I wasn't just looking at a centuries-old village, but an architectural time capsule.

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When we stopped at Stevens Pass to stretch our legs, I tried to devilishly form a sad-looking snowball from the light snow that covered the ground.

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