"As certain as she is sometimes and as absolutely gung-ho and young and courageous and brave, she is also willing to take a step back and go 'okay,I'm going to reconsider my options and how I'm treating everybody' because she acknowledges that she's being a little bit selfish.

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She has just come back from a Tupperware party where the hostess put too much kirsch in the punch, so she's a little drunk.

她刚从一个特百惠派对回来,因为女主人准备了太多的樱桃白兰地，所以她有点喝醉了。

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and she's a little skittish just because of her history.

所以这段经历让她性格有点安静。

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There are still people now that live--there's a woman that lives near our village and she's lived in our village, she was born in the next village, and she's lived in our village for forty years because she married a guy from the village; and she's from the next village, about twenty football throws away, or a little more than that.

现在还有人住在,有个女人住在,我们村子旁边,她曾经住我们村,她是在邻村出生的,她在我们村住了,有40年,因为她嫁到我们村来了,不过她是邻村人,扔二十次橄榄球就到了,也可能远点

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