I spent most of the day washing and drying clothes and thinking how love had disappeared from my life.

我白天的大部分时间都花在洗涤和烘干衣物上，同时也在思考着爱是怎么从我的生活中消失的。

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My mistake was to confuse a destiny to love with a destiny to love a given person. It was the error of thinking that Chloe, rather than love, was inevitable.

我的错误在于混淆了注定去爱和注定爱上一位特定的人之间的区别，以为今生注定要爱上克洛艾，而不是注定要去恋爱。

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I drank the soup and took a few bites of the chicken feet, thinking both of my childhood love of sugary dim sum claws (fong zhao) and, later, an acquired Western aversion to the stuff.

我喝了汤，又咬了几个鸡爪，想到我两个小孩都喜欢甜的爪子点心(凤爪)，然而，这却是一种西方习惯了反感的食物。

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Watching her inspect the carcass of an insect on my windowsill one afternoon, I found myself thinking, I have fallen in love with your strangeness.

NEWYORKER: Sweetheart Sorrow