For me it took the form of my first, and I hope only, encounter with writer's block—I was not able to produce anything for three years.

这是我第一次，我希望也是唯一一次，遇到作家瓶颈期——我有三年没写出任何东西。

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The only thing Gore didn't do in his first encounter was throw spitballs at Governor Bush.

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After being interned in a Nazi work camp during World War II, he managed to make his way with his first wife, Eva, to the Romanian border, only to encounter a Russian commander who demanded to see his papers.

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