Isn't that like trying to maintain a smile at your wedding reception while some relative gives a toast that amounts to "marriage is hard work”?

这是不是就像你在你的婚宴上试图保持微笑，而一些亲戚给你敬酒，相当于告诉你“婚姻是件苦差事”？

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He is a longtime friend of Ahmadinejad, a relative by marriage, and a member of his innermost circle, a coterie so tight as to form a faction within a faction in Iran's ruling establishment.

他是内贾德多年的好友，双方还有姻亲关系；他也是内贾德核心小组的成员，一个伊朗统治阶层集团内一个联系紧密的小团体。

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Critical appointments include the installment of Vice Marshal Jang Song-u, a Kim relative by marriage, to command of all forces around the capital of Pyongyang.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The House of Kim