希拉里“不化妆，戴着可乐瓶一样的眼镜，根本没有发型的棕色头发”；而我的母亲总是涂着亮粉色的口红，睫毛油，头发上还扎着一根银色的带子。

It was a girl with no makeup, Coke-bottle glasses, and brown hair with no apparent style versus a woman with hot-pink lipstick, painted-on eyebrows, and a silver stripe in her hair.

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他们所在的厨房虽然很小，但是一尘不染，柜台光秃秃的，橱柜蹭蹭亮。

The kitchen they stood in was tiny but immaculate, the counters nearly bare, the cabinets polished steel.

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不管是旱季或雨季，树上总有猴子，汽车前灯照射下总有夜鹰，还有默默的行人，走着的、跑着的，还有不亮灯自行车(经常是两个人骑一辆车)。

Wet or dry, there would be monkeys in the trees, nightjars in the headlights and silent figures walking, running or mounted-often two at a time-on unlit bicycles.

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So this is like your children's book representation of the Christian God, and there it is as a blinding white cloud. You wouldn't even need the curls and the beard if you just had the blinding and the white.

这就像你们儿童书里上帝的代表，它就像一朵亮白的云，你甚至不需要,卷曲状和胡须状的图像，即使你只看的，亮白。

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