My friend said this was Japanese binding, the way that books open from left to right, backwards.

我的朋友说这是日式缝书法，书页是从左翻到右的。

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All right. So you solve the problem and then, lo and behold, it turns out that: It is my friend Bumpy. Bumpy gives me a push.

好了，你们解决这个问题，然后，你瞧，结果竟是：,这是我的朋友，颠簸，颠簸推了我一把。

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Well, he's a good friend of mine, but I think he may be overstating it a little bit; we have some disagreements.

当然他是我一个很好的朋友,但我觉得他在这一点上有点言过其实,我们在这点上意见不合

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I could never make a merit of being caviare to the crowd the way my quasi-friend Pound does. I want to reach out, if it were a thing I could do by taking thought.

我不能因为创作大众的阳春白雪而夸耀,就像我的半个朋友庞德一样，我希望伸展开来，如果这是我动脑经就能完成的事。

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