玛蒂尔达曾经写过一篇关于童话对罗尔德·达尔写作产生的影响的文章，这篇文章让我对他古怪而又令人愉快的话语有了新的认识。

Matilda once wrote a paper on the influence of fairy tales on Roald Dahl's writing and it gave me a new appreciation for his strange and delightful words.

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如果我们使用可以欺骗他人的话语，我们就是在说谎；泰德的谎言很糟糕，因为它听起来很像真的。

If we use words that can deceive others, we tell a lie; and Ted's lie was a bad one, for it sounded so like the truth.

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迎接范德卢顿先生非同寻常的滔滔话语的是一阵死寂。

A dead silence greeted this unusual flow of words from Mr. Van der Luyden.

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