To express any hope at this time they felt to be childish and stupid.

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So I realize that this was among a more childish demonstrations that I could come up with to illustrate this point.

我意识到这个一个很幼稚的演示,我可以举例来说明这一点。

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est-ce pas How long ago it seemed and childish! Yet tender too, n'est-ce pas?

看来多么遥远和幼稚啊，然而又是含情脉脉的，n’

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