This was no Saint Francis with enough time to knock out a few canticles or to preach to the birds or do any of the other endearing things so close to Franny Glass's heart.

圣人弗朗西斯没有足够的时间去,来唱颂歌或者向鸟儿告解或者做任何,其他讨喜的事情，正合弗兰尼的心意。

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of course, with any business you have the good clients and the bad,

当然，任何行业你都会既碰到很友善的客户也碰到不讨喜的客人，

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Unappealing to us, perhaps, for that reason, very contrary to our intuitions Yes? and the way we have been brought up. Yes?

也许对我们而言不太讨喜，原因多重，甚至是非常不同于我们的直觉,与成长的教化模式？

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At least, the way he's presented, he's a very likable character.

起码，他表现出来的样子，是个非常讨喜的角色。

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The first, which one finds among manymodern-day commentators, many kind of neo-Aristotelians, we might call them, is to simply avert our eyes from the harsh, unappealing aspects of Aristotle's thought and proceed as if he never actually said or meant such things.

第一种是,你在今天随处可见的评论者，多种的新亚里士多德派学者，我们可以这么称呼他们，他们就只是转移我们的目光，不去看亚里士多德想法中刺眼，不讨喜的观点,单纯地以为,他好像从未说过或意指这档事。

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