When I was a boy "discovering literature", I used to think how wonderful it would be if every other person on the street were familiar with Proust and Joyce or T. E. Lawrence or Pasternak and Kafka.

我还是个“探索文学”的毛头小伙子时，老是想，要是大街小巷人人都熟知普鲁斯特、乔伊斯、T•E•劳伦斯、帕斯捷尔纳克与卡夫卡，那该多好。

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When I was a boy "discovering literature", I used to think how wonderful it would be if every other person on the street were familiar with Proust and Joyce or t.

我还是个“探索文学”的少年时，就经常在想：要是大街上人人都熟悉普鲁斯特和乔伊斯，熟悉t。

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The police can't do everything at once, and you simply cannot have a policeman on every street corner - yet we all have massive expectations of the police.

BBC: News | UK Politics | Ann Widdecombe's speech in full

We all waited in terror to hear him repeat to the convention his malicious vilification of the Jews, but that he didn't made no difference to the mood that carried every last family on the block out into the street at nearly five in the morning.

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Just about every investment house on Wall Street dealt with him, and those that didn't mostly wanted to.

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