The mounting tension that results from all that is unsaid between the two men (who never even address each other by their true names) eventually destroys even the façade of friendship.

两个男人平日从来就不以真名称呼对方，而他们对此事只字不提所导致的紧张情势也不断恶化，最终甚至毁灭了两人友谊的最后一道壁垒。

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Writer George Ade used it in a book called "Artie."

作家乔治·阿德在《Artie》一书中用到这句短语。

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Ade was going to help us, but he cried off.

艾德本来要帮助我们，但是他没有履行诺言。

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Last month, a senior Iraqi officer involved in bomb-prevention defended the ADE-651.

BBC: Export ban for useless 'bomb detector'

And policemen manning checkpoints in Baghdad have told the BBC that you need to be relaxed to use the ADE-651 and that it does not work properly if the user is stressed or has a high heart rate.

BBC: Export ban for useless 'bomb detector'

Mr McCormick declined our request to interview him for this report, but late last year he told the BBC that he has been selling products like the ADE-651 for over a decade and that he has sold 6, 000 of them to around 20 countries.

BBC: Export ban for useless 'bomb detector'