I rushed to the hospital and met, for the first time, a thin, sad figure that I hardly recognized as my father-so different from the strong, robust figure of my childhood.

我冲到医院，第一次看到一个瘦弱悲伤的身影，几乎认不出那是我的父亲——他和我童年时那个身体强壮、精力充沛的形象是如此不同。

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Figure 2 illustrates a more robust alternative that relies on an application-defined object model to isolate the code that deals with XML in a Serialization package.

图2示范了一种更健壮的替代方案，它依靠应用程序定义的对象模型，将处理XML的代码隔离在Serialization包中。

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