In the past few months I had fallen victim to dining out ennui, meaning I often ended up at Sichuan restaurants or something within a 2-block radius of my apartment.

在过去的几个月里我成为了厌倦外出的牺牲品，意味着我经常只局限于四川餐馆或者在我公寓附近而已。

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Vanya shakes off his complacency by dusting off a play he's written and gets everyone to perform it Spike cloddishly interrupts the show with his cellphone and Sonia snaps out of her ennui by putting herself out there at a fancy party.

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