It's as if the commodity of the bride is deemed truly valuable only if it can be guaranteed pure and untouched.

这就好像新娘这件商品,只有在完全的纯净没有动过才是有真正价值的。

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Because she was he's old girlfriend. And he is very sad to have lost her.

因为准新娘是他的前女友。而失去她，对于他来说是一件痛苦的事。

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Each one of the boys was one of the gentlemen who lived in Hawaii at the time, and he was looking for bride and wrote a letter to a Japanese woman.

男生们扮演战争期间,住在夏威夷到的绅士们，他正在寻找新娘,给一名日本女人写了封信。

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We assume that unless we're dealing with Scheherazade, it has to have an end, but at the same time we might well ask ourselves, why does it have a middle? What is the function of the middle with respect to a beginning and an end?

而且我们认定一定会有结尾，除非讲故事的是那个，《天方夜谭》中的苏丹新娘，但是我们要问自己了，为什么故事一定要有经过呢？,故事的经过对于开头结尾来说起到什么作用呢？

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