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开始练这一级 →My uncle lives in a town where the old school building stands.我叔叔住在一个小镇上，那栋旧校舍还立在那里。 The school closed two years ago, and he calls that year the breakdown.学校两年前关闭了，他把那一年称为「崩溃」。 Families left for city work, and the local fertility rate kept falling.一些家庭去城里打工，当地的「生育率」也一直在下降。 His wife is a prominent doctor there.他妻子是那里一位「杰出的」医生。
The rail line took most people, and the last factory closed.铁路把大多数人带走了，最后一家工厂也关闭了。 A commodity had shaped the town, and when it fell, shops closed.单一的「商品」曾经支撑着这个小镇，它一垮，商店也关了门。 The doctor raised one objection: people are not numbers.那位医生提出了一个「反对意见」：人不是数字。 When a family returns, every infant gets a small gift.每当有家庭回来，每个「婴儿」都会得到一份小礼物。
I looked at the empty houses and drew an inference.我看着那些空房子，做出了一个「推断」。 He corrected me: people left, but the town is not dead.他纠正了我：人们是走了，但这个镇并没有死。 A simple filter cleans the water there.那里有一个简单的「过滤器」净化水。 We do not impose a story and then call it the truth.我们不要把某个故事「强加」给一个地方，然后称之为真相。
The old school was a harbor for the town.那栋旧校舍曾是小镇的「港湾」。 Last spring a few families returned and painted the room.去年春天，有几户人家搬了回来，把那个房间重新刷了漆。 They brought books, and the shelves filled up.他们带来了书，书架又满了。 The data can reinforce her objection: few children live here.这些数据可以「强化」她的「反对意见」：住在这里的孩子很少。
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