Demong says he had the ring for a while, but thought Thursday was the right time to ask.

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And one of the things one may immediately detect is whether or not the person who wrote the poem was indeed writing the poem and thought that she or he was in command, right?

一个人在阅读时很快就能发现,写这首诗的作者是否,真的是在独立作诗,认为自己对文字完全具有掌控权？

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And the president, on many occasions, took unpopular positions that he thought were the right policy because that's what he thought he was elected to do was to use his best judgement and that judgement didn't necessarily need to be the most popular thing around.

许多场合下总统，都会采取并不受推崇的做法,但他认为是正确的政策,因为他认为这是他当选总统该做的,就是运用他最好的判断力,这种判断未必是,最受欢迎的。

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