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Sometimes the wealth and the cleanliness everywhere around me became like an hallucination.在这句话里cleanliness就是干净的意思，不过随手去reference查了查，觉得解释的怪有意思的，记下来。还学了个词组。Cleanliness Cleanliness is the abs...

He had all but drawn them a map and placed an X on the very spot in New Orleans where I slumbered, though what he really knew about that, and what his intentions were, was not clear. ...

New souls are born out of the void, but infrequently, especially at this point in the cycle, for we are in the [b]Kali yuga[/b], the Age of Destruction.上网查了一下Kali yuga:Kali Yuga (Devanāgarī: कलि...

Akbar是Bistami在老虎死后遇见的最关键的人，就是那个国王。查了一下，发现历史上确有其人，是印度莫卧儿（Mughal）王朝的一个皇帝。还得先对Mughal王朝有所了解，于是查阅英文大百科。[b]Mughal or Mogul[/b] 是印度的穆斯林帝国，1526-1857，帝国是由Babur(Akbar的祖父)建立的，Babur是一个从阿富汗起家的土耳其酋长。1526年，...

Harry Potter4里出现的，想来是一个比较传统的节日，一查果然[b]Boxing Day[/b]Boxing Day is the day after Christmas, a public holiday in most countries in The Commonwealth. It originated as a day for giving gifts to empl...

看完Lost Symbol之后，看书的兴趣大增，于是赶紧开看Sue Grafton的字母系列。看第一本A is for Alibi之前，照例去网上看看评论，查的时候发现居然已经有了中文译本了，最近两年新书还真的出的又多又快啊，不过我还是看英文电子的算了，给娃买书买穷了，动不动就几百没影了。每个作者都有自己的一套词汇体系，Sue Grafton也是，跟之前看的那些书的词汇差别比较大，刚开始看...