When you make a cold call, the receiver wants to know immediately if the call is relevant or not to him.

当你打冷电话的时候，对方想要立刻知道这个电话和他有没有关系。

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We decided not to burden him with the news.

我们决定不拿这个消息去烦他。

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Economic change for its own sake did not appeal to him.

经济变化本身并没有吸引他。

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Now he would have to deal with the problems that presidents before him had not been able to solve.

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But in our collective cultural consciousness, if there is a such thing, whether we like him or not we tend to think of John Milton as powerful.

如果说我们有一种集体文化意识的话，在这个意识里，不管我们喜不喜欢米尔顿，我们都会认为他是强大的。

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When Milton met him, Galileo would have been old and blind, not unimportant to the later Milton, and Galileo was under house arrest at his home in Fiesole.

当弥尔顿遇见他是，伽利略已经又老又瞎，而这点对后来的弥尔顿至关重要，伽利略当时被软禁在他菲索尔的家中。

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He says the pledge is a commitment to the people of their district, state and country not to him.

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Knowing that the dream frightened and upset his sleep was more disturbing to me, than the dream itself, but not to him.

FORBES: Dreams and Values

He says that, on his appointment in 2002, he refused even to take money for his office from the IPCC, and that all payments for his advice and services go to TERI, not to him.

ECONOMIST: Rajendra Pachauri and the IPCC