YOU SAID:
Reading is looking at a dead tree and hallucinating.
INTO JAPANESE
読書は枯れ木を見て幻覚を起こすことです。
BACK INTO ENGLISH
Reading is about seeing dead trees and causing hallucinations.
INTO JAPANESE
読書は枯れ木を見て幻覚を引き起こすことです。
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