They were all convenient excuses to hide behind and in some way justify why the world owed me a favor.

这些为我提供了方便快捷的借口，以躲在人后并解释了为什么老天爷得对我特别优待。

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But even if I didn't want to see this movie, I would have gone anyway. I owed you a favor after I roped you into going to the national Chia Pet convention with me.

也就是说，如果你本来不想看这个电影，但是经不起我软磨硬泡，最后只好同意，就是被我rope into it.

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I smiled. "we owed you a favor," I said.

我笑了，“我们本来就欠你个人情。”我说。

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One of them was Bob Livingston, who owed him a favor but who also did him one inadvertently by choosing not to step into the impeachment management.

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