有一天，和我一起工作的隔壁办公室的莱恩说：“莉娅，我们去看看安妮女王的所在之处吧。”

One day a man I worked with, Ryan, who had his office next to mine, said, "Leah, let's go and look at this space on Queen Anne."

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“我想，我可能很幸运，”莱恩说。

"I'm lucky, I guess," said Ryan.

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我对伊莱恩说，“我觉得太恐怖了。”

"I feel terrible about this," I say to Elaine.

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Lane was speaking now as someone does who has been monopolizing conversation for a good quarter of an hour or so and who believes he has just hit a stride where his voice can do absolutely no wrong.

莱恩说着话，就像是在掌控着那对话,长达大概十五分钟,他相信，在那,他的声音是绝对正确的，我经常读到。

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