On the stair leading up into the disinfectant-smelling twilight of a rooming house, she saw an old man huddled, shaking with grief she couldn't hear.

登上梯子，在一间散发着,消毒水气味的昏暗公寓里，她看到了一个老人缩成一团，以一种他无法感受的哀伤颤抖着。

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where you sit in a room and you're huddled over you know, whatever, you're just counting it over and over and over again.

你蜷缩在屋子一角，手旁一堆工作，然后你就在那儿一遍又一遍地计算。

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