If things weren't working out by the end of the summer he'd fire me and I go back to Stanford for business school, that didn't sound too terrible.

如果不行的话，他就炒了我呗,我还可以会斯坦福继续读商科，这听起来又不会太差。

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The South would end, he said, by being dominated by the North.

南方已经没落,他说道,它会被北方所统治

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I remember when I was a kid, I read this book by Thomas Wolfe called Look Homeward Angel, and in the end he says, "oh lost, and by the wind grieved, ghost, come back again."

我记得自己还是孩子的时候,读过一本托马斯·沃尔夫的书,名叫《天使望故乡》,结尾的时候,他说,"啊,迷失的人,还有那随风悲泣的亡魂,回来吧"

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