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10该例子选自英国女作家Anne Bronte的小说The Ten-ant of Wildfell Hall(1994),由G.D.Hargreaves编辑,由Penguin and Foreign Languages Press于1994年联合出版.下文出现该小说时只交代作者和页码.
