In that moment Sal supplies the answer for why Dean came, "never knew why he had come anyway," and then Sal supplies "except to see me," and his own pain and tears are routed through Laura.

在那刻萨尔说出了为什么迪安会来的理由，“他也搞不清楚为什么来“，然后给了答案,“只为了想看看我“，但他的眼泪在劳拉面前被击溃。

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swinging a baseball bat at me on the subway train for no reason, except that he's crazy.

他在地铁上无端地朝我挥动棒球拍，没有理由，除非他疯了。

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Except it seems to me it's a further fact about human psychology that we care more about being short-changed than we do about being, as we might put it, overcompensated.

只不过对我来说,它似乎是更进一步的人类心理学,即我们对于别人少找钱会更在意,而不会在意，过度补偿。

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People are already shaking their heads over me and any immediate God further professional use on my part of the word "God" except as a familiar, healthy American expletive will be taken or rather confirmed as the very worst kind of name dropping and a sure sign that I'm going straight to the dogs.

人们经常对我表示不同意，以及对,我一用那个字“,除非作为熟悉的健康的美式感叹词或咒骂词时,它们会被认为是最差的名字,也肯定是我向那些狗前进的标志。

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Nobody can eat my lunch for me except for me.

除了我没人能吃我的午餐。

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