Both his parents taught Japanese literature, but he preferred reading second-hand pulp-fiction novels picked up in the port city of Kobe.
村上父母都是日本文学教授，但他本人却更喜欢阅读神户淘来的二手通俗小说。
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In half a minute he had reached the port scuppers, and picked, out of a coil of rope, a long knife, or rather a short dirk, discoloured to the hilt with blood.
Americans desperate to flee the Israeli bombardment of Lebanon lined up near Beirut's port Friday for a third straight day as a massive evacuation operation picked up speed.