他是一个肩上背着一个沉重袋子的老乞丐。

He was an old beggar with a heavy bag on his shoulder.

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“那边那位好心的老绅士。”一个医生在和另一个医生说话。

"That nice old gentleman over there," a doctor was talking to another.

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这是最不寻常的：我从来没有想到，一个人的老影子会像人一样地回来。

It is the most remarkable: I never imagined that one's old shadow could come again as a man.

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But, you know, I know someone who was a teacher in a Chicago public school for decades and lost his job, teaching math to high school kids, because he is gay.

我认识一个任职于,一所芝加哥公立学校几十年的老教师,被解雇了，他在高中教数学，仅仅是因为他是同性恋。

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So, even if we were to agree with the pessimists that it would be better never to have been born at all, as the old joke goes, show me one person in a thousand who's so lucky, right?

所以，即使我们要同意悲观主义者的观点,根本不出生更好，就像老笑话讲的那样，给我千里挑一找到一个走运的人？

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