A belief 'if you lose,I win.'" Republican Senator Bob Corker told VOA that the president's tone was cordial,but that the speech lacked specifics on ways to reach out to work with Republicans.

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There seems to be something like a gentle parody maybe even a mocking tone that fills the lines of the Elder Brother's ecstatic speech.

似乎有些东西如文雅诙谐的改编作品甚至是嘲弄的语气,体现在大哥入神的讲话中。

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The strangely sermonic tone that this speech assumes is, I think, exactly the point.

演说中奇怪的布道式的语气，我认为，刚好切中要点。

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