Everyone at the dinner table smiled, out of politeness I think, but I think my poor wife simply didn't realise that she she was being asked for human qualities, not pragmatic ones.
晚餐上的每个人都笑而不语,我想这不过是出于礼貌。但我看我那个倒霉老婆还并没有明白别人问他的是我的个人品性,可不是什么功利目的。
She hasn't written—not that she said she would.
她还没写信来—倒不是她说过她要写。
She thought she could reform him.
她觉得她可以使他洗心革面。
She says she researches her family history because she wants to know where she came from, who her ancestors were.
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who is on the streets in New York and she got mugged because she was walking alone at late at night,
她正在纽约的大街上走着。有一次她在夜间独自一人在街上走,遭遇了抢劫。
Then she has this revelation where she is actually seeing who is going into heaven and it's all the people.
后来她突然醒悟,因为她看到了前往天堂的人们,每个人都上了天堂。
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