On his desk I found a book about love story.

在他的桌子上我发现了一本关于爱情故事的书。

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Of course words are all he has, and with them he goes on to recall the Book from a hazy, near-forgotten epoch "somewhere in the dawn of childhood," when he saw it lying on his father's desk.

当然了，他这不都是在描述嘛，而且他还从几近遗忘的“童年的黎明”这样的暗淡回忆中，想到了“那书”：他在父亲的书桌上看见了它。

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And not having a book of his own to point to, he pointed to mine which was lying on the desk.

他没有带自己的书，就指着书桌上放着的我的书。

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