Christmas was nice but bittersweet; for the first time since my brother was born, there were only three of us.

圣诞节很快乐，但也是甜中有苦，自从弟弟出生后，这是第一次只有我们三个人过圣诞节。

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First he came along to a dinner party my mother gave one summer in Oxford; some time after, there was a friendly picnic on Christ Church meadow along with my mother, my brother and me.

他第一次出现在晚宴上，正是我母亲在牛津度夏的时候；不久，又和我母亲、我弟弟、还有我，一起在神学院的草地上共进了一次气氛融洽的野餐。

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I worked a full-time regular job while I wrote my first novels, scraping out an hour here or there in evenings and weekends.

当我写自己的第一本书时，每天还在做一份全职的工作，我得在晚上和周末挤出一个小时来写作。

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