The popular theory is that readers were in exactly the right place to appreciate a novel about characters whose minds are magically wiped clean of trauma and sadness.

当小说里的人物头脑里的伤痛和悲哀被神奇地抹去了的时候，读者往往会站在一个恰到好处的位置去欣赏它，这是一条被普遍接受的规律。

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Then 24 male participants, whose mean age was 27, were shown emotionally ambiguous photographs of women and asked to rate the faces' sadness and their attractiveness.

然后24名平均年龄为27岁的男性受试者，被要求在观看一组表情不明确的女性照片后，按照面孔的悲伤程度和吸引力对照片进行排名。

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Looking up, I saw a girl of great beauty, perhaps seven or eight years old, whose big black eyes seemed to take in the scene with curiosity and, I thought, sadness.

抬头寻去，只见是个非常漂亮的小女孩，约有七、八岁，乌黑的双眸透着好奇，带着一种我认为是忧郁的眼神，似乎要将周围发生的一切都摄入眼底。

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The little girl whose life was filled with a sadness she never put into words, and who stopped going to school because the children laughed at the way she walked, was suddenly the head of the family.

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