他们认为乡下人爱讨好外地人。我没有纠正他们的这种想法。

Their view of country people was that they like to please strangers. I did not disabuse them of this notion.

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当男孩们围到她身边时，当然，她没有别的想法，只想着他们。

As the boys gathered round her she had no thought, of course, save for them.

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他们都为自己的软弱感到羞愧，但没有一个人有足够的勇气说出他的想法。

They were all ashamed of their weakness, and none was brave enough to speak his thought.

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They can pretty much pack it up and go home, because everyone's going to think they're ridiculous, no one will believe what they say, and it's a stupid idea anyway, is basically the gist of this conversation.

他们就可以打包回家了，因为每个人都会认为他们很荒谬，没有人会相信他们的说法，这是个很愚蠢的想法，这就是他们当时谈话的大概意思。

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I guess they didn't have our language, they didn't-- they were intuitively halfway there but they couldn't express it, so I think the industry didn't get really started.

我猜当时并没有专业的词汇,他们未能...,他们有想法,却无法表述,所以我认为那只是保险业的雏形

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