Then, as I ran across the square, Watcher the blacksmith, who stood there with his apprentice, reading the placard, called out to me, "Don't hurry so, my boy;"

当我跑着穿过广场的时候，正在布告栏前和徒弟一起看布告的瓦克特尔铁匠朝我高喊：“小家伙，不用赶得那么急；

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Being the watcher, the silent observer, is a liberating and life-changing experience.

成为一个沉默的观察者，是一种自由舒畅、改变人生的体验。

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When Levine and Citron tried to sell their trading software, called the Watcher, to The Street, the big houses would have none of it.

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The Washington Post cites Nicholas Lardy, a respected China-watcher at the Peterson Institute, as saying that urban housing stock accounts for 41% of household wealth in China, compared to 26% in the U.S., though mortgage lending is much more restrictive in China.

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The book's author is Joost Hiltermann, a veteran Middle East watcher with the International Crisis Group and a frequent guest here on NPR.

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