I go to give him a kiss—just a peck—and he veers off, jerking his head out of the way like a nervous racehorse.

我走过去要给他一个吻，只是匆匆一吻，而他却转身走开了，像匹紧张的赛马似的把头扭到一边。

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And after watching me chew the meat off a chicken bone, he still gave me a kiss goodnight.

在看了我啃完鸡骨头上的肉后，他仍然给了我一个吻互道晚安。

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He'll have a battle with himself: he wants you to know he wants to kiss you, but he doesn't want to come off as pushy or overbearing.

他正在和自己斗争：他希望你知道他想吻你，却也不想表现出强硬或是傲慢。

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"There are a lot of candidates who get completely run down, and they have to take a week off - and that's the kiss of death, " says Richard Ben Cramer, author of What it Takes: The Way to the White House.

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That weekend, Mr. Saied ran into Sheik Qaradawi as the luminary emerged from a crowded hotel elevator and attempted to fend off people trying to kiss his hand.

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"Rodin is a great sculptor, " he notes, before wandering off into a musing litany of works he owns: " 'The Kiss, ' 'The Thinker, ' 'The Shades, ' 'Eve, ' " he pauses.

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