Luckily, last month, my friend Wilson came back from Australia and had a meal with me. All of a sudden, he talked about this word and not until then did I know its meaning.

直到上个月在澳大利亚留学回来的Wilson来找我吃饭时，他谈到这个词，我回去一查，才恍然大悟！

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Come my friend, till its not too late to seek a newer world.

来吧，我的朋友，寻找更新的世界尚为时不晚。

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I could not help wondering that my old friend, the pound-lock, and that of the very simplest and most rural kind, should hold its place there.

我不禁觉得奇怪；这座我所熟悉的贮水水闸，这种极简单，极土气的贮水水闸，今天居然还保留著。

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