Because no matter how she loved the boyand she did, furiously, as if her own life depended on him, loss was alwaysthere like the shadow of an infant following at her heels.
It seemed that no matter how hard I tried, happiness was constantly eluding me and disappointment became my shadow.
似乎不管我怎么努力,快乐总是躲着我走,而失失望则如影随形。
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Then you measure the length of the skyscraper's shadow, and thereafter it is a simple matter of proportional arithmetic to work out the height of the skyscraper.