She seemed like falling into memory and answered me in a trance: “that’s not the reason…I didn’t mean to take it out…I have brushed it clean at that time and it was really a tough job.”

她好像陷入了回忆，有些恍惚地说，那倒也不是……我没想到把它给翻出来了……当时 我把它刷了，很难刷净……

youdao

Instead, I calmly walked out, almost like in a trance, out of the apartment, out of the building, out of the neighborhood until I was back in the ruins.

我冷静地回头，仿佛梦游一般走出那间公寓，走出整个公寓楼，走出整个街区，直到身处一片废墟之中。

youdao

I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision. I saw something like a large sheet being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came down to where I was.

我在约帕城里祷告的时候，魂游象外，看见异象，有一物降下，好像一块大布，系着四角，从天上缒下，直来到我跟前。

youdao

And as if I were waking from a trance, I pushed away the silence, I beat it down with a yes yes yes, of course of course.

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And to me, she looks like she's in a trance really, I mean, like she's literally in the music.

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"Nothing, " I said, and I kept driving, in a kind of trance, so that Anne Marie's cries of "Wait!"

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