To approach the village at night a timid man requires great strategy.

如果一个人胆子不大，却想在夜里进这村子的话，那么他得拥有超人的胆略。

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None gave him more hints, in answering questions, or asked him simpler ones than the economics professor, a thin, timid man named Bassum.

而在教授当中，经济学教授又在他回答问题时给他最多的暗示，问他的问题也最简单。经济学教授是一个瘦削、胆小的人，名叫巴瑟姆。

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He was so timid that be seemed shy, he rarely went out, and he saw no one but the poor people who tapped at his pane and his cure, the Abbe Mabeuf, a good old man.

他简直胆小到好象不敢见人似的，他很少出门，除了那些敲他玻璃窗的穷人和他的神甫之外，谁也不见。

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In fact I was a man weighed down with disappointment, a man for whom things had not worked out the way he had once imagined, a quiet man, cautious in his life, timid when you came right down to it, though content enough to drift along through the little rituals of his day.

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