The essay that you read was produced at the behest of his French publisher. They wanted him to write something that would make people feel better about the book, that would give some account of its origin and give some defense for its publication and its content.

你们所读到的那篇短文就是在法国出版商的要求下写的,他们希望他写些什么来让人们对这本书产生更多的好感,来交待这本书的缘起,并且为它的内容和它的出版进行辩护。

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I wanted him to consider the folly of his decision.

我想让他再考虑下他荒唐的决定。

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Also, if your patron wanted to run for a city office, your patron would expect you to be loyal and vote for him.

作为回报，如果庇护人要竞选官职，就会要求你投他一票。

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He was frustrated because he just lost a sale of a $2000 piece of glass that he had just made because the woman who wanted to pay him only had a credit card and he couldn't accept credit card.

他很沮丧,因为他刚刚失去一次将玻璃艺术品,以2000美元卖出的机会,有位女士想要买他的艺术品,但是只用信用卡付账,但他不愿意用信用卡交易。

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He was simply a youth tremendously excited with life and though he was a con man he was only conning because he wanted so much to live and get involved with people who would otherwise pay no attention to him.

狄恩属于那种对生活充满激情的年轻人,虽然他还是个很自信的骗子,这是因为生活中他希望得到的东西太多了,他希望能引起人们的注意。

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So what he did was invite people who wanted consulting from him, wanted to learn from him to come to his home.

于是他邀请想咨询他问题的人，想跟他学习的人来他家。

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Under Louis Brandeis -Brandeis wanted companies to always present the information, but for him it always meant presenting a document, so they had something called a prospectus, for example.

路易斯·布兰代斯...,他希望公司能够始终提供信息,在他那个时代,是指提供文档,比如当时称为招股说明书一类的文件

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He wanted to go all the way to the Ganges River, but his army forced him to turn back.

他还想继续向恒河进军，但是他的军队迫使他返回波斯。

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