“我宁愿步行。”她回答他道。

'I'd prefer to walk,' she answered him.

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他的回答使她颇感难堪。

His answer rather disconcerted her.

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他平静的回答化解了她的怒气。

His calm response dissolved her anger.

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And when asked about the pain he caused his victims he responded, "What do I care? I'm not her," which is logically correct but, in a sense, inhuman.

当别人问他对受害者,造成的痛苦时，他回答时，“关我什么事？我又不是她”,从逻辑上说没错，但一点人性都没有。

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And then, I'm going to skip down a little bit: Though she never again called back any image of the dead man to dress up, pose, talk to and make answer, neither would she lose a new compassion for the cul-de-sac he'd tried to find a way out of, for the enigma his efforts had created.

接下来，我会跳过一些内容往下说：,虽然她从没有想起过，那个死人穿衣、摆弄姿势、,说话和回答问题时的样子，她也不会失去对他的同情，对他尝试摆脱,无路可走的困境所付出的，谜团一般的努力。

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