Someone would bring the meat. Someone would bring the dressing. And we would all sort of combine the efforts to have a family Thanksgiving dinner and bring out the good china for that particular event.

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It's conventional--that is to say, it belongs in the public sphere to all of us, and there's perhaps a certain sort of Romantic loss in that.

其实这很常见，语言是属于大家的，虽然这让语言少了一些浪漫的意味。

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and she doesn't see it at all until right at the end when there's a denouement, sort of revelation,

但是，她直到最后的结局才恍然大悟，算是一种启示，

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The result of all this is a sort of primer on current American moviemaking: it starts off hip and loose, lightened by the presence of its young indie stars, but slowly seizes up into mainstream melodrama.

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The last gallery, called "Spaces of Modern Life, " is a culmination of all that came before it, a sort of Second Empire fugue state of themes expressed and interwoven.

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All of which is sort of odd for a band that broke up a few years ago.

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