呃~,首先两人都是在30几岁时移居罗马且在那里度过了大半岁月。
Well, both moved to Rome at 30 or so, and spent most of their lives there.
我得雇个好的经理人来随时监视我的工作。不过,我的老板——呃,她是个不错的女人,不过她也过分纵容自己,效率不高,而且与世隔绝。
I needed a good manager to keep me on track, but my boss-well, she's a nice lady, but she can be overindulgent, inefficient, and reclusive.
我记得,我曾让人把棉花从一只柳条编织的沙发中抽出来,好拿去让人重新弹一下,结果拿出来一看,竟完全是黑的。呃,不!
I remembered that when I had the cotton removed from a wicker sofa so that it could be re-fluffed, it had turned out to be completely dark.
So another parallel is people talk about these highly intelligent people from whom the President that surrounded himself, erh, FDR surrounded himself with highly intelligent people, that is no guarantee of anything, except brilliant rationalization for failures in some cases.
所以从另一个方面说,人们总在谈论这些,聪明的人,总统身边的,呃,罗斯福身边,就有高智商的人,但那保证不了什么,他们只能为失败,找到托词。
And you friend says, "Well, you know I was kind of a nerd in high school. No one really liked me."
你的朋友说“呃,你知道,我在高中时是个书呆子。没什么人喜欢跟我打交道。”
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