The person next to me piped up with a silly comment.

我旁边那位愚蠢地评论起来。

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Finally, I turned to the person next to me and introduced myself.

终于我转向我身边的人做自我介绍。

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I thank God for fear, because for the first time I'm afraid the person next to me will be the one who wants to leave.

感谢上帝赐予我“害怕”，让我第一次感觉到害怕失去坐在我身边的这个人，有一天会离我而去。

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As we might put it: What is it for somebody who's here next week to be the same person as me?

或者说,现在的我,和下周在这里的我又有什么不同

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AP This person next to me took AP computer science, and that may actually be the case.

这位已经拿到计算机科学，还有其他类似的情况。

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Or,to put it more straightforwardly, next week the person that's me is the person with my soul.

或更直接地说，下周是我的那个人，带着我的灵魂。

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In class, I focused on having lengthy get-to-know-you chats with the person next to me, passed notes to my people three rows over, and penned (ghostwrote) love letters for girlfriends to give to the object of their obsessions.

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In order to fit the gurney into the cramped compartment, they were obliged to tilt it vertically hence the belts, I thought to myself so that the upright litter stood next to me, like a fourth person, as the elevator began its slow descent.

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