但她还在忙碌着，卖掉老房子，搬进一个房租只有原来一半的住地，天天去幼儿园接送女儿。

Partly, she has been busy, selling their old house, moving into a new one they are renting at half the monthly expense, seeing her daughter off to kindergarten.

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你可能写过也收到过人们现在还在发送的这些史诗般的节日信“亲爱的亲朋好友，又是忙碌的一年，我们错过了最爱的的电视节目……但是，我们终于修好了厕所”如果你要写类似的年终报告，最好先看一下你最近写的一些东西。

By now you may have written, or received, one of those epic holiday letters many people still send. “Dear Friends and Family, It’s been a busy year.

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去年的今天，亲爱的和朋友们到结冰的海面上去玩，还在那里写上浪漫的字，今年的今天却要在办公室忙忙碌碌了。

A year ago today, my dear went to the iced sea with friends and wrote something romantic there, but today he has to stay in the office and keeps busy working.

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But somehow or another it's not enough because the otherness, - the mutuality of regard that this story wants to enforce as life-- as life properly lived--is not entailed in and of itself in neatness and busyness.

但是这还不够，因为还有别的东西，比如这个故事还讲了-,生命不只是,限定在简洁与忙碌之中。

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