I am trying rather to see him as his own friends and contemporaries saw him. And they without exception regarded him as one of the greatest of men.

我正努力地像他自己的朋友和同代人看他那样去看他，而他们毫无例外地视他为最伟大的人物之一。

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One of his friends, with a mixture of admiration and despair, describes him as a “loose cannon.

他的一位朋友半是钦佩半是绝望地形容他为“我行我素者”。

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One of them confided to her that in middle school she'd been known to him and his friends as the She-Monkey.

其中一个男孩偷偷告诉帕蒂，他和他的朋友们在中学的时侯管帕蒂叫母猴子。

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He is goateed and, as one of his friends describes him, ''abdominous.

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