Frank Spriggs was a very able man but something of a closed book.

弗兰克· 斯普里格斯是个非常能干的人，却不被人所知晓。

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Behind every able man, there are always other able men.

每个有能力的人背后都有一群有能力的人。

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I allow that he is an able man.

我承认他是一个能干的人。

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He was a very able man, but his loyalties were not clear.

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Most people were able to get the packages to this man and it took at maximum six degrees of separation, which is where the famous phrase comes about that we're all separated from another person by six degrees of separation.

大部分人都能装包裹寄给这个男人,这个过程最多经过六度分隔，著名的六度分隔理论就是这样来的,这个理论是说人与人之间有六度分隔。

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Researchers in Switzerland were able to recreate a Third Man experience in a laboratory setting.

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Bayh, who has ruled himself out as a presidential contender in 2004, called Kerry "a very able man, " but he ducked the question of who would be the best Democrat to challenge President Bush.

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"During his time on the course, Mr Abdulmutallab never gave his tutors any cause for concern and was a well mannered, quietly spoken, polite and able young man, " it said.

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"If you look like a man and you live your life like a man, you should be able to use a man's bathroom, " said Dru Levasseur, a transgender rights lawyer for the advocacy group Lambda Legal.

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