相思相见知何日，此时此夜难为情。

What day is lovesickness known, this time this night.

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有些人生而此夜绵绵无尽期。

Some are born to Endless Night.

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我不想让此夜穷尽。

I do not want this night to end.

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In other words, you might think of it as a kind of artificial, processed, bland, easily consumable version of fate. I really mean that. One of the funny things about that debt to Finnegans Wake is, Finnegans Wake as a book of puns is unreadable.

也就是说，你可能会把它当做一种人为的，处理过的，乏味的，容易消耗的命运，我正是此意,关于《芬尼根守灵夜》中一个有趣的事是,它作为一本充满双关语的书是不值得一读的。

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