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ed because we’d owned the same set of books. The letter both told me a little about him, and told me that I would never really know anything about him and why should I? His son must have been startled to hear from a stranger on such a fragile pretext. What had I been thinking? One possible, and only somewhat facetious, answer is that I’ve read too much Dickens. In the world of a Dickens novel, everything is connected to everything else. Orphans find families. Lovers are joined (or parted and morally strengthened). Ancient mysteries are solved and old scores are settled. Questions are answered. Stories end. Dickens’s cluttered work of connected lives brilliantly exaggerates something that is true of all of us. We want to impose order through telling stories, maybe because there is so much we don’t know about our own stories and the stories of those around us. Leonard Generson’s life touched mine only lightly, through the coincidence of a set of books. But there are other lives he touched more deeply. The next time I read a Dickens novel, I will think of him and his military service and his 10 languages. And I will think of the hundreds of babies he must have delivered, who are now in the middle of their own lives and their own stories. Section 2 ChineseEnglish Translation (漢譯英) ( 40 points) Translate the following passage into English. The time for this section is 60 minutes. 總 部位于美國(guó)印第安納州的得而達(dá)( Delta)水龍頭公司是美國(guó)一家上市公司 Masco 集團(tuán)的核心企業(yè)。 MASCO 集團(tuán)是世界五百強(qiáng),家居及裝飾行業(yè)的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)者,在美國(guó)乃至世界有70 多家子公司,在全球有超過 61,000 名雇員,年銷售額超過 121 億美元。 現(xiàn)在,得而達(dá)