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it of an intelligent, brave man and his life of service. At the same time, it made me question my presumption that somehow . Generson and I were connected 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