Why did I tell these thing to him?

我为什么要把那些事告诉他？

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It's the first time that I said such a thing to him.

这是我第一次对他说这种话。

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The child soon became a precious thing to him.

很快地，这小孩就成了他的心肝宝贝。

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His name was never in the papers. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him.

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He had the feeling that everything he saw was a broken-off piece of some giant blank thing he had forgotten had happened to him.

他有种感觉,觉得他看见的一切都是之前发生过的,他已经忘记的,某件大而无用的事掉落的碎片。

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But in our collective cultural consciousness, if there is a such thing, whether we like him or not we tend to think of John Milton as powerful.

如果说我们有一种集体文化意识的话，在这个意识里，不管我们喜不喜欢米尔顿，我们都会认为他是强大的。

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But New Zealand's most successful captain and highest run scorer said statistics were not the most important thing to him.

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But the strange thing to him was that this repellent man seemed to be reading the ignominy of his own thoughts.

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It's going to be a tight thing for him to pull this out.

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