"F" this and "F" that. And every timehe said the "F" word, people, for some reason,well, they cheered.
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You saw that in the way he stood bobbing his head, always looking down, nodding like a young boxer to instructions to make you think he was listening to every word, throwing in a thousand "yes"es and "that's right."
你看他站着摇头晃脑的样子,总是朝下看,像年轻的拳击手听指令时一样,那样晃着脑袋,好让你觉得他在听你说的每个字,一边不断附和着“是““对“
Now I use the word "cult" and every year people look at me and say "what is cult? I don't even understand what that means."
在这里我用“祭仪“这个词,每一年人们都会问我,“什么是祭仪?我甚至不知道它是什么意思,“
For instance, in historical times when the Greeks referred to the great King of Persia, who was a real king and a powerful figure, a king in every sense, the word they used for him was Basileus.
比如说,在历史上,希腊人把伟大的波斯王,一个真正在各种领域,具有绝对权力的君主,称之为巴赛勒斯
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