Why didn't he come clean? Of course, they took "The Purloined Ribbon" to be his sort of allegorical way of suggesting that he couldn't possibly confess because nobody can confess, there's no human subjectivity, etc., etc., etc.

为什么不全盘招供，当然，人们把他写的“偷窃的缎带“当成他用一种讽喻的方式,来暗示说他不可能承认,因为没有人能承认，人类主观性的缺失，等等等等。

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He was frustrated because he just lost a sale of a $2000 piece of glass that he had just made because the woman who wanted to pay him only had a credit card and he couldn't accept credit card.

他很沮丧,因为他刚刚失去一次将玻璃艺术品,以2000美元卖出的机会,有位女士想要买他的艺术品,但是只用信用卡付账,但他不愿意用信用卡交易。

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Well, I just think that if he was making his own original idea and it was his idea to start with, then that would be the only situation in which I would see it being appropriate in any way because that way you couldn't make the argument that he was pressured, you know it's three-to-one or whatever the ratio was.

我只是认为，如果这就是他的本意,是他主动要求被杀的，只有在这种情况下,我才认为无论从哪方面来说都是恰当的,因为那样的话，就不能说派克是被迫的，毕竟当时是3对1的局面，派克不占优势。

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He didn't go to New Hampshire because he knew he couldn't win.

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"Because he couldn't get fueled, he couldn't go, " a jetBlue spokeswoman said.

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He won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music, but because he couldn't play the piano he was not allowed to join the conducting class.

BBC: Obituary: Colin Davis