He takes off his glasses, takes a step back, and says, "Son, all the years I've been giving this lecture, no one has ever claimed to have slept with a ghost."

他把眼镜儿拿了下来，退后一步，然后说，“孩子，我这么多年来一直在讲授这门课，还没人声称和鬼上过床的。”

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Yet Joyce takes a thousand pages to tell all that happens from the time one man gets up in the morning until he goes to bed early the next morning.

乔伊斯花费了大概一千页来就讲述从一个人早晨起床到第二天早晨重新上床睡觉这段期间所发生的一切。

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The "…and then he woke up and it was all a dream" twist is maligned for a reason, but if it takes talent to make a good cliché work, making a bad one brilliant is Holmes-level genius.

这样的设定，如果说把一个陈词滥调做成一个好作品需要天赋的话，那么把一个烂作品变成殿堂级的作品，那简直就是福尔摩斯级别的天才。

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He takes one last look at the militiawomen and their prisoner to assure himself that all is as it should be, then climbs into the cab beside the driver and strikes the floor with the butt of his weapon to signal the beginning of the procession.

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He will probably tell you himself he wasn't in the game much but all it takes is that one moment and that's what these type of players do.

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