我本来可以站起来，但是，即使我站起身来瞧瞧它，十之八九我也说不出它到底是什么；因为一旦一件事发生以后，就没有人能知道它是怎么发生的了。

I might get up, but if I got up and looked at it, ten to one I shouldn't be able to say for certain; because once a thing's done, no one ever knows how it happened.

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当杂货店里空无一人的时候，你所能听到的常常是飞来飞去的苍蝇的嗡嗡叫声，这时我就想起了那个年轻人来，我们从来就不知道他叫什么名字，小城镇里也没有人再提到这个人。

Often, when the grocery store is empty and all you can hear is the buzzing of flies, I think of that young man whose name we never knew and whom no one in town ever mentioned again.

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可惜在春假的时候父母把我送到俄勒冈的祖父母家去了，因为不知道为什么他们觉得如果没有人照看的话我一定会闯祸的。

But my parents shipped me off to my grandparents' house in Oregon over spring vacation, somehow suspecting that if I was left at home unattended, I would wreak havoc.

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