There I was, sitting at my laptop, alone in my flat, receiving emails from someone claiming to be me.

我一个人呆在公寓里，坐在笔记本前，收到一个自称是我的人的邮件。

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What would she think if she found him sitting there with the air of intimacy implied by waiting alone in the dusk at a lady's fireside?

他想，他的未婚妻有可能来这儿看望她的表姐，倘若她发现他坐在这儿，只身在一位夫人炉边的昏暗中等待着，对这种亲密的样子她会怎样想呢？

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Or they would come running out into the balcony; and then Florence would hide herself quickly, lest it should check them in their joy, to see her in her black dress, sitting there alone.

或者，她们会跑到阳台上来，这时弗洛伦斯就会迅速躲藏起来，唯恐她们看见她穿着黑色的丧服孤独地坐在那里，会影响她们的欢乐。

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But Adel, the thin young student, was there, sitting alone, an open book face down on his lap.

NEWYORKER: Waiting

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Incredible as it may seem, there was the Sage of Omaha sitting alone scarfing down his low-calorie meal of waffles dripping in syrup, slabs of bacon and on top--like the cherry on a sundae--a serving of eggs benedict, all being washed down with a huge glass of cherry Coke, the first of five such libations he drinks every day.

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