Here is a whale of a fish story for you.

这里有个关于鲸鱼的故事告诉你。

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They laughed as if it was just a fish story.

可他们却笑话我在讲故事。

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I think it's a fish story. Don't believe it.

我觉得那个故事很夸张，别相信。

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Whalen loves a good fish story, especially one the thick-armed, 41-year-old insurance broker from Capistrano Beach, Calif. lives to tell.

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There is a fundamental difference between using a private investigator at any given time to turn around a story on tittle-tattle, or to fish for stories and monitor people's lives, and to make a careful, considered decision to carry out a breach of the law in order to expose wrongdoing.

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"It's really a show about acclamation, more than anything, " executive producer Joe Lawson said of what he sees as a fish-out-of-water story.

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