Once you began you couldn't stop.

一旦开始，你就不能停止。

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As I placed my groceries on the counter, she looked at me once more with giant tears in her kind eyes and began to speak. "Now I can tell you."

在我往柜台上拿东西的时候，她还是用那双含着泪水的眼睛温和地看了我一下说到，“现在我可以告诉你了。”

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You might say that the town only developed asoul once it began to reconnect with its past.

你也许会认为，只有当一个城市和它的过去重新联系起来的时候它才能产生出灵魂。

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Sharp or blunt, table knives also meant forks, if for no other reason than that, once you stopped impaling your meat (not to mention tearing it up with your hands and teeth) and began cutting it on a plate, you needed a fork to anchor it while you sliced.

NEWYORKER: A Fork of One��s Own