He gave a little chuckle.

他轻声一笑。

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"The last time I was invited to Japan, in 1945, I didn't much want to go," he would chuckle.

“我上一次受邀去日本是在1945年，那一次我还不太想去呢，”说这些的时候他轻声地笑了。

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Cynics chuckle, and even Mr Paul sounds unenthusiastic about the Paulville project, in which he had no hand.

好挖苦的人轻声笑了，甚至保罗对这个保罗村项目听起来也不热心，因为他不参与这个项目。

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Come the Bush administration, Swindle "was not invited to stay, " he recalls with a chuckle - perhaps because he favored Rep. Jack Kemp as Reagan's VP over George Bush.

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Tibetans, he says, should be proud that China is hosting the Olympics (though, with a characteristic chuckle, he says he does not know whether they will be happy when the Olympic torch is paraded in Lhasa in June).

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But there was a hint of a chuckle as he advised the chamber, en passant, that he was off the hook.

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