Cities like New York, Boston, Pittsburgh and Chicago listened and heard, if sometimes indistinctly, the notes of universal appeal, and children saw the Arabian Nights come true.

像纽约、波士顿、匹兹堡、芝加哥这样的城市，也都倾心倾听，也都听到那富有普遍感染力的啁啾，虽然有时隐隐约约，可孩子们觉得那就是《一千零一夜》的真实再现。

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In second grade, a schoolmate lent me a copy of "The Arabian Nights" -we both thought it was a book for children-and told me I had three days to read it.

小学二年级的时候，一个同学借给我一本《一千零一夜》——我们俩都以为这是本儿童书籍——但告诉我我只有三天时间读这本书。

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Now the stories she told to the Sultan were called stories from the Arabian Nights, or the Thousand and One Nights.

她给苏丹讲的故事，现在就叫做《天方夜谈》，或者叫做《一千零一夜》。

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