I want to qualify what I said earlier—I didn't mean he couldn't do the job, only that he would need supervision.

我想具体说明一下我原先的话—我没有说他不能担任这工作，只是说他需要指导。

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I asked two of his top aides to tell him he couldn't use the slides, but they each said they couldn't do it, that I had to.

我让他身边的两名高级助理告诉他一会儿不能使用演示文稿，但两人却都说无法劝阻，只有我自己去。

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"To experience all that emotion again was fantastic," he said. "I couldn't even say it was a great free-kick."

他说：“再次经历这种情感感觉不可思议，我不能说它只是一个任意球。”

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