A stranger with a flair for cocktail party descriptive prose might have commented that the room, at a quick glance, looked as if it had once been tenanted by two struggling twelve-year-old lawyers or researchists.

一个鸡尾酒派对的调酒师,也能看一眼就对这件房子作出评论，他会看得出房间曾被两个奋斗的,12岁的律师或研究员租过。

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And--or people would talk to him and he'd just stare at them and say--and people would say-- would be intimidated by his bold and impetuous stare when actually he just totally didn't know anything.

别人跟他说话，他就会盯着人看,人们就会-,被他大胆无礼的凝视吓怕,其实他根本不知道别人在说什么。

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