The thing seems to have some kind of reality in one's head... it seems to be something that one is discovering rather than inventing.

故事似乎在作者的头脑中是真实发生过的，似乎作者们要做的就是在头脑中探寻而非创造它们。

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She said something about Mother and her love of life, and I realized that the phone conversation was just the kind Mother would have chosen to be our last one.

她对母亲和母亲对生活的热爱做了几句评价。 这使我意识到，要是让母亲决定我们最后一次谈话的内容的话，她一定会选择最后那次电话聊天的内容。

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It might be just a big cat of my entire blog into something meaningful and that's kind of this vague notion that I had for the next year or two.

当时想也许就是把我整个的博客文章整理成有意义的东西，只是个模糊的想法，觉得未来一两年内会去做。

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On the other side of the equation, many young Americans are interested in, and engaged with, the world beyond their borders -- which says something about the kind of business and political leaders they'll be after graduation.

WSJ: America the Popular

It took me awhile to realize it was an earthquake, at first I thought it might be some kind of equipment malfunction in the house or helicopters outside or something like that.

FORBES: 5.9 Earthquake Hits East Coast

"I'm not going to be so stuck in the mud that an opportunity to actually get something done is flagrantly wasted because of a kind of predetermined stubbornness, " he told U.S.-based journalists.

NPR: As US Talks Up Diplomacy, NKorea Takes Hard Line