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A Thousand Splendid Suns《灿烂千阳》Chapter 7-8
7.They sat across from her, Jalil and his wives, at a long, dark brown table. Between them, in the center of the table, was a crystal vase of fresh marigolds and a sweating pitcher of water. The red-haired woman who had introduced herself as Niloufar’s mother,...
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A Thousand Splendid Suns《灿烂千阳》Chapter 5-6
5.I know what I want,” Mariam said to Jalil. It was the spring of 1974, the year Mariam turned fifteen. The three of them were sitting outside the kolba, in a patch of shade thrown by the willows, on folding chairs arranged in a triangle.“For my birthday...
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A Thousand Splendid Suns《灿烂千阳》Chapter 3-4
3.One of Mariam’s earliest memories was the sound of a wheelbarrow’s squeaky iron wheels bouncing over rocks. The wheelbarrow came once a month, filled with rice, flour, tea, sugar, cooking oil, soap, toothpaste. It was pushed by two of Mariam’s half brothers,...
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A Thousand Splendid Suns《灿烂千阳》Chapter 1-2
1.Mariam was five years old the first time she heard the word harami.It happened on a Thursday. It must have, because Mariam remembered that she had been restless and preoccupied that day, the way she was only on Thursdays, the day when Jalil visited her at th...
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外刊精读：网红生活的另一面：灵感枯竭、丧失热情
随着YouTube、Instagram、TikTok等内容创作平台的兴起，一批又一批内容创作者走红网络。这些网红博主们大多年纪轻轻，却坐拥百万、千万粉丝，名利双收。但近期，许多“网红”博主表示自己疲劳过度，灵感枯竭。内容创作的繁重工作与平台的激烈竞争，正迅速榨干创作者们的工作热情。他们究竟面临着怎样的困境？又能否摆脱这一困境？英文原文Young Creators Are Burning Out and Breaking Down年轻的内容创作者们“感觉身体被掏空”，正处于崩溃边缘By Taylor LorenzLa...
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为什么一拿起书就犯困？The reason reading makes you sleepy
许多人都有睡前读书的习惯，不只是因为他们是书虫，还因为读书的助眠功效实在太赞了。你可曾好奇过，为什么自己一看书就犯困呢？You’ve finally tucked yourself into bed and cracked open the detective novel you’ve been waiting all day to get back to. Three pages later, you’re fighting a losing battle against two suddenly very he...