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“That was ages ago,” Veronica said. “I can stand Janet now. She and her brother are both at boarding school.”
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“那是多年之前的事了，”维罗妮卡说，“现在可以受得了珍妮特了。她和她哥哥都在上寄宿学校了。”
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“Remember how we used to have to work around them? Remember the time you sent Harry off to school even though he had a fever, because you and I had a date set up?”
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“还记得我们曾经不得不想法子避开他们吗？还记得吗，那次你把哈里送到学校去，也顾不上他在发烧，因为你我有约在先？”
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“I’d forgotten that. I’d prefer not to be reminded; it makes me ashamed now. We were foolish and heedless, and you were right to break it off. It’s taken a while for me to understand that, but I do.”
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“那些事我已经忘了。我不喜欢旧事重提；旧事让我羞耻。那时我们愚蠢、轻率。你是对的，了断了我们的之间的事。过了好一阵子我才想通，但确实想通了。”
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“Well, I don’t. I was crazy to give you up. I exaggerated my own importance. Kids—mine are teen-agers now, too, and away at school. I look at them and wonder if they ever gave a damn.”
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“哦，我可想不通。跟你分手，我简直疯了。我太看重了我自己了。孩子——我的孩子，现在也都十几岁了，都住在学校里。看着他们，我总是在想，他们是否真的会在乎？”
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“Of course they did, Lester.” She cast her eyes down, toward the cup of hot tea she had ordered, though he had pressed her to have, like him, a real drink. “You were right: don’t make me say it again.”
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“他们当然会的，莱斯特。”她垂下眼帘，看着她自己点的热茶，尽管莱斯极力怂恿她跟他一样点一份酒。“你那样做是对的，别没完没了呀。”
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“Yeah, but, right now, it feels desperately wrong.”
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“是啊，可是，现在我觉得这件事大错特错了。”
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“If you flirt with me, I’ll have to leave.” This threat provoked a long chain of thought in Veronica that led to her saying solemnly, “Gregor and I are getting a divorce.”
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“如果你和我调情，我就得离开了。”这一声威胁，勾起维罗妮卡自己一连串的思绪，最后，她严肃地说：“我和格雷戈尔正在办离婚。”
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“Oh, no!” Les felt as if the air had thickened, pressing like pillows in his face. “Why?”
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“噢，不！”莱斯感到空气似乎凝重了，像是枕头压在脸上。“为什么？”
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She shrugged, and grew very still over her cup of tea, like a card player guarding her hand. “He says I can ‘t keep up with him anymore.”
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她耸耸肩，盯着那杯茶，变得一动不动，像是一个玩纸牌的人护着自己手里的牌。“他说我已经不配他了。”
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“Really? What a selfish, narcissistic creep! Remember how you used to complain about his icy touch?”
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“真的吗？自私自恋的家伙！还记得你曾经怎么抱怨他那冷冰冰的抚摸吗？”
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She repeated the almost imperceptible shrug. “He’s a typical man. More honest than most.”
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她再次微微耸肩，几乎让人觉察不到。“他是个典型的男人，比大多数男人诚实。”
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Was this a dig at him? Les wondered. In their game of reopened possibilities, he didn’t want to overplay his own hand. Rather than say nothing, he said, “With winter here, you don’t seem as pale as in summer. How are you doing with sunlight?”
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这是在挖苦他吗？莱斯心想。在这场可能重温旧梦的游戏中，他可不想表演过分。他无话找话地说：“冬天来了，你的脸色不像夏天那么苍白了。你现在对日光还敏感吗？”
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“Since you ask, it makes me ache. I have lupus, they tell me. A mild form, whatever that means.” Her grimace he took to be sarcastic.
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