来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1945年后的美国小说 第2集 第2集》

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  saw them but me.
  谁都看不见它们
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  Exhaustion would make me drift toward sleep
  忧虑把我推向睡眠
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  and then I would scream
  之后我又会尖叫着
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  until I was wide awake again.
  直到完全清醒
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  I was afraid to sleep.
  我害怕睡眠
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  Time finally bore me away from the dangerous bags
  最终时间帮我带走了这些危险的袋子
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  and I got well.
  而我的病也好了
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  But for a long time
  但很长一段时间
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  I was chastened whenever
  每当我
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  I remembered that my mother
  想起我妈妈
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  had come close to killing me.
  几乎杀了我的时候我都很受折磨
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  Why start with this scene?
  为什么以这个场景开头