Then my father's worlds, which he had asked his children daily when they were young, rang in my head again: what did you do for someone today?

这时候，我父亲经常在我们小时候经常教我们的话再一次跑到我的脑中：你现在为人们做了什么？

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For several days I'd been going around with this sentence in my head: « He was running the vacuum cleaner when the telephone rang ».

开始，我只有开头的一句话：“当电话铃响起的时候，他正在吸尘。”

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"It rang a bell in my head, " he says.

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