Slater remained at the house, acting as its caretaker when the family was not in residence.

这家人不在的时候，斯莱特留在这幢房子里看家。

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Action is not future or past action but acting in the moment.

行动不是将来或过去的行动，而是当下的行动。

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Actual acting, as in performing the scripted lines of a character other than yourself, does not do the job.

真正的表演，如果像表演一个角色的脚本台词，而不是你自己的话，并不能完成任务。

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So the writer seems very determined to tell the story in a way that depicts God as acting not capriciously but according to certain clear standards of justice.

作者似乎决定,描述不是一个变幻莫测,而是有着很清楚公正原则的上帝。

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At the same time, he fears that being a poet means -and this is a fear that literate young men and women have to this very day -- to be a poet means in some way not to be acting responsibly or politically.

与此同时，他也担忧成为一个诗人意味着,这是直到今天文青和文艺女青们共有的一种担忧,成为一个诗人某种意义上,意味着不能负责地践行政治行为。

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