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"Not if it wouldn't interest you, though, I must say, I find it hard to believe that anyone could fail to be interested."
“如果它不令你感到好奇的話，我不會說的,但是我必須說，我認為很難去相信有人會對這個不感興趣。”
He paused, but Mr Crowther made no reply; on the contrary, he showed every sign of resuming his reading.
他停了下來，但是克勞瑟先生沒有回答；相反，他卻表現(xiàn)出想要繼續(xù)看書的樣子。
To prevent this, Mr Harraby-Ribston leaned back in his seat and launched out.
為了阻止他這樣做，哈利比-里伯斯頓先生背箱在座位上，大談特談起來。
"The truth of the matter is that I have just, an hour and a half ago, abandoned home and wife and I am starting life afresh,
“我所做的那件事的真相是，一個半小時前，我剛剛拋棄了家庭和妻子，要開始新的生活，
and the reason why I threw my suitcase out of the window just now was that I had suddenly realized that in it I was taking some of the old life with me.
而我剛才把手提箱拋出窗外是因為我突然意識到我把過去的生活帶到了箱子里。
Clothes, hairbrushes and so on all have their associations, and associations are precisely what I want to be rid of.
衣服、梳子等這些東西都會使我聯(lián)想到過去，而這些聯(lián)想恰恰是我想拋棄的。
Hence my rather unusual action.
因此，我做出了那個不尋常的舉動。
I'm no chicken, I admit; I'm a man of nearly fifty, I've been married for twenty-one years, and yet here I am, starting life afresh.
我承認我不是個年輕人；我是一個將近50歲的男人，我已經(jīng)結(jié)婚21年了，而現(xiàn)在我要重新開始生活。
Well, that may seem to you a very extraordinary thing to do."
那么，在你看來這應該是一件很不尋常的事吧。”
