A flame darted from the logs and she bent over the fire, stretching her thin hands so close to it that a faint halo shone about the oval nails.

一片火焰从木柴中跃起，她朝炉火弯了弯身，把瘦削的双手伸得离火很近，一团淡淡的光晕闪烁在她那椭圆的指甲周围。

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“Farewell bright sun, ” she cried, stretching out her arm towards it； and then she walked a short distance from the house； for the corn had been cut, and only the dry stubble remained in the fields.

“再会吧，您，光明的太阳！” 她说着，同时向空中伸出双手，并且向田鼠的屋子外面走了几步——因为现在大麦已经收割了，这儿只剩下干枯的茬子。

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The days, stretching into weeks, when she was afraid to emerge from her apartment.

一天又一天，一个星期又一个星期，她一直害怕走出公寓。

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Dressed all in black, she strides purposefully across the vast exhibition hall, her presence nearly dwarfing even the mural-sized Marc Chagall stretching from floor to ceiling behind her.

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And others simply laughed her off as another celebrity stretching herself thin, figuratively.

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