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My boss at the county paper reads each page I write before print.我在「县」报的老板会在付印前读我写的每一页。 Last week she asked me to cut a single sentence from my long story.上周她让我从我的长文里删掉一句话。 I said no, and we started a long debate.我说不，于是我们开始了一场漫长的「争论」。 For two days we talked about that line.那两天我们一直在谈那句话。 In the end I gave her credit for one small point, but I did not accept defeat.最后我在一个小点上给了她「认可」，但我没有接受「失败」。

Then she told me to fix every page soon.然后她让我尽快改好每一页。 So we worked on it all afternoon.于是我们整个下午都在改它。 The old device on my desk lost our text twice.我桌上那台旧「设备」两次弄丢了我们的文字。 That small problem has come back for a decade.那个小毛病已经反复出现「十年」了。

I felt a strong desire to throw it out of the window.我有一种强烈的「愿望」，想把它扔出窗外。 She said a new machine was not the real answer.她说换一台新机器不是真正的答案。 We saved the file by hand, line by line, and the crisis passed.我们一行一行地手动保存了文件，「危机」过去了。 It could have done real damage to three weeks of work.它本可能给三周的工作造成真正的「损害」。

I still devote my evenings to writing.我仍然把每个晚上都「投入」写作。 But now I press save after every sentence.但现在我每写一句就按一次保存。 The debate with my boss never really ends.我和老板之间的「争论」从来没有真正结束。