Before I could say anything further, the principal gave me a sly, almost sarcastic smile.

我还没来得及说什么，校长露出了一个狡猾、几乎有些讥讽的微笑。

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For a moment I could say nothing. I could only stand and look.

一时间我什么也说不出来，只能站在那儿看着。

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Before I could say a word, I realized what they were talking about.

我还没来得及说话，就明白了他们在说什么。

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U.S.Defense Secretary Robert Gates. "There is a general feeling I could say that with all these additional troops and all these additional efforts that everybody is making to get to the elections in Afghanistan, to have a free and fair election and then see over the next months whether we can begin to shift the momentum,".

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If it were just a little bit different I could say, all right, I have a different approximation. But when it's this different, something is wrong. Right?

但是如果仅仅有点差异的话,我可以认为没什么大问题,我得到了一个不太一样的估算，但这确实有差异，出问题了对不对？

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I think you could go so far as to say without Charles Darwin, we wouldn't even have modern medicine.

我觉得，可以说没有达尔文就没有现代医学。

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And I wish I could say that this perseverance came from some innate toughness in me.

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"It would be nice if I could say I would stay one more year, " he said.

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"I could always say I worked at Microsoft, but could never say I worked for Microsoft, " Pauli says.

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