我对文字的爱始于母亲每天晚上给我读故事的时候。

My love of the written word began early as my mother read to me every evening.

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我给她读故事。

I read her stories.

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某个名人将会读我的故事，真是太棒了！

It's great to know that someone famous will be reading my story!

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I love reading these particular stories, and just hearing the dialogue between them, and imagining it, because the two of them alternate in losing patience with the Israelites, and wishing to throw them over.

我喜欢读这些特别的故事，读他们之间的对话，想象那个场景，因为他们两个轮流对犹太人,失去耐心，想放弃他们。

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I actually thought it was hard to understand, just what was happening, the action part of the story. It might have been that I read it too quickly. Uh huh. Harder than "Menelaiad" to understand? No.

事实上，我认为它很难理解，就是到底发生了什么，即故事中的动作部分，也可能是我读得太快的缘故,所以不太理解罢，比《梅尼洛斯》更难懂吗，不是的。

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Let me ask you a question first about John Barth and the stories that I asked you to read. Which of them was your favorite? Some cackling I hear None of them?Which of them was your favorite?

我先来问你们一个关于约翰·巴斯和我让你们读的,故事的问题，你们最喜欢哪个故事，我听到一些咯咯笑的声音,都不喜欢吗，你们最喜欢哪个故事啊？

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