Helen looked straight up at the sky as if a lost memory or thought of some kind was coming back to her.

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My parents thought I'd lost my mind to drop out of Stanford Business School to go join some company that made software.

我父母认为我从斯坦福商学院,辍学去一家软件公司工作根本是疯了。

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I always got lost, so I thought what better way to do then,

我经常迷路，所以我思考有什么更好的方法，

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At the gym I did my dumb struts on the elliptical and lapsed into spells of lost thought.

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As the junior allies, British officers felt they could do nothing in Basra to change the course of a war being lost, they thought, by American troops in Baghdad.

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"There is certainly more interest now and support for speaking Zapotec, " adding that the revival of the Zapatec language is happening in places where it had been thought lost.

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