You'll find Eve in Book Nine of Paradise Lost voicing essentially this same sentiment when she's explaining to Adam why she needs to work separately.

你会在失乐园第十部看到夏娃说出了实际上是,同样的意见，当她向亚当解释,她需要和他分开工作的时候。

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I needed about an half hour ahead start on him in the office in order to be sufficiently prepared to visit with him which I did every morning shortly after he arrived.

我需要在他之前,半个小时前就开始工作,为的是做好充分准备,跟他谈话,我每天早上,他到达办公室后都要跟他谈。

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The personal aid isn't a National Security offical but a person always knows what the president's schedule is, has his briefing book, his speech, his man, whatever the president needs to just keep functioning.

私人助理不是国家安全部官员,但是他必须知道,总统的行程如何，拿着他的简报，他的发言，他的人手安排，一切总统维持正常工作,所需要的东西。

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