"It's no use speaking to it," she thought, "till its ears have come, or at least one of them."

“现在跟它说话没用，”她想，“要等它的耳朵长出来，或者至少一只长出来。”

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I am like one whose ears hear not and whose mouth has no answer.

但我好像是一个有耳听不见的聋子，我又好像是一个有口不能言的哑吧。

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As unthinkable as that proposal sounds to modern ears, in those days no one had even conceived of an environmental impact study and upstream towns along the river turned out to be no match for big city political power.

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