An NBA player once said to me, with a bemused chuckle of disbelief, that when playing in Canada—get this—"We have to wait in the same customs line as everybody else."

在加拿大打球时，一位 NBA 球员曾经低声轻笑，带着难以置信的神情跟我说：“我们必须和其他人一样在海关排队等候。”

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People get out of his way when he appears once in a twelve-month down here among us.

只要他一年一次在我们这儿出现，人们就会故意避开他。

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In Japan, once when I was in the studio audience of a TV cooking show, I was asked to go up on the stage and taste the beef dish that was being prepared, and tell what I thought.

在日本，有一次我作为观众呆在一个电视烹饪节目的演播室里，有人请我上台品尝正在准备的牛肉菜，并说出我的想法。

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New protests groups would be formed in a few years when farmers once again faced hard times.

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It's just the sheer--it's amazing, it's an amazing read too. And then, Marc Bloch; I once had the pleasure when I was giving a talk at the University of Strasbourg and sitting in Marc Bloch's office.

那真的是--真的特别棒,也是本好书,还有马克·布洛克,我曾经有幸在斯特拉斯堡大学演讲时,坐在马克·布洛克的办公室里

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We establish these targets, we review them once a year, we don't make changes in many years, they're quite stable, and when we do move them we don't move them by a lot.

我们设定了这些资产配置,每年都会评估一次,这些指标已经很多年没有变过了,十分稳定,即使我们要调整,也不会有很大幅度

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Every once in a while, when I was at home, the phone would ring and I'd be jolted by music until he came on.

WSJ: Charles Mingus Lives | By Nat Hentoff

Police say they visited Castro's house twice in the past - once in 2000 when Mr Castro reported a fight in the street and again in 2004, after he left a child unattended on a school bus - but had never entered the residence.

BBC: Cleveland abduction: Castro brothers

No need to preserve this institution, although I do feel once in a while when separating the sheets appropriate for fire starter from the heavily recycled and glossy stock for the poor salesman who has to call on the actual local supermarket each week to get the specials for the Friday circular.

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