It's not the vocabulary that troubled me, but rather the way Austen constructs sentences, and her way of thinking, which seemed too remote to me at that time.

倒不是里面有很多生词，更多的时候是简·奥斯丁的句法结构，还有她的思维模式，总让我觉得和我不在一个维度。

youdao

I do not have to push myself too hard trying to show my greatness to the entire world, I do not have to spend every minute of my life thinking what part of me is actually great.

我不用给自己很大的压力，强迫自己向世界证明我的杰出，我也不需要每一分钟动都在那想自己的生命中，有哪一部分是杰出的。

youdao

This started me thinking about something else, too… at the end of my life, the stories are really all that’s left.

并且，这也让我开始思考另外一个问题——在我生命的尽头，这些故事就是我所拥有、所剩下的一切。

youdao

The other part of me was scared, thinking that once the list was finished, my life might be too.

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