Apart from an idle man halfheartedly flipping through a book of local attractions, there was no one in the front of the shop, where miniature carved boats and model fish aged unwanted on the shelves.

除了一个闲逛的男人在心不在焉地翻看一本当地的导游书，店堂外间没有别人，货架上放着多年卖不掉的雕刻小船和模型鱼。

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But these apart, if every man were not to be a great extent the architect of his own character, he would be a fatalist, and irresponsible creature of circumstances.

但除此之外，如果人在很大程度上不能成为自己性格的构筑者，那么他就会沦为宿命论者，从而成为环境的失败造物。

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And if we sell you our land, you must keep it apart and sacred as a place where even the white man can go to taste the wind that is sweetened by the meadow's flowers.

但如果我们把地卖给你，你必须要把它和其他的地分开而且让它保持神圣，让这个地方连白人都可以去品尝风经过草地上的花后的甜美味道。所以我们会考虑你买地的提议。

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He's not the only one to have done that but certainly on the scale that he did it, he was a man apart.

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This is a problem man can do something about, and apart from a brief stint in the mid eighties, never has.

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More than any other popular singer, Jones had the ability to sink so far into a song that it never seemed to be a performance at all, just the sound of a man falling apart in front of you.

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