He then put the dead man in a hollow tree at his head — for he wanted to protect him from the wolves — and laid himself down on the ground and moss.

他于是把死人放进头顶上的一棵空心树——因为要保护他不被狼吃掉——自己则挨着土地和苔藓躺了下来。

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The blind man and his guide move away down the narrow streets of the small, dead town.

那个盲人和他的导游走上狭小、死气沉沉的小城狭窄的街道。

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The old man stood trembling and looking down at his dead son's face.

老头儿站在那儿，颤颤巍巍地俯视着儿子的脸。

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And then, I'm going to skip down a little bit: Though she never again called back any image of the dead man to dress up, pose, talk to and make answer, neither would she lose a new compassion for the cul-de-sac he'd tried to find a way out of, for the enigma his efforts had created.

接下来，我会跳过一些内容往下说：,虽然她从没有想起过，那个死人穿衣、摆弄姿势、,说话和回答问题时的样子，她也不会失去对他的同情，对他尝试摆脱,无路可走的困境所付出的，谜团一般的努力。

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The blind man and his guide move away down the narrow streets of the small, dead town.

NEWYORKER: See the Other Side

Not least because in the dead man's pudgy hands he finds a gold cross, ornately worked and made to hang upside down in the way St Peter was said to have been crucified.

ECONOMIST: New fiction

" All leading up to the punch line: As they watch sorry Old Peg and his sad-sack horse and crumbling buggy ramble down the road and out of hearing range, Allen Gore, known for being a dead-serious man, puts his arm around his son and deadpans, "There goes your future, Albert.

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