Franny again cleared her throat. Apparently, her self-imposed sentence of unadulterated good listenership had been fully served. "Why?" she asked.

弗兰尼又清了喉咙，他的自欺式的自白得到了倾听,遇到了好听众，为什么，她问。

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It's really the difference between perseverance in my case, and genius-- pure, unadulterated genius-- in the case of Chopin.

这真是差距,勤奋的普通人,比如我,和天才,浑然天成的天才,比如肖邦,之间的差距

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