Having watched David Blaine audaciously sit in a box for a month, I thought it would be funny to announce that I, Alex Horne, was attempting to live longer than anybody else in the entire world.

看到大卫·布莱恩勇敢地在一个箱子里坐一个月，我想要是我，阿历克斯·霍恩，宣布要尝试成为世界上最长寿的人，事情会很有趣。

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ALEX: I'm really surprised. I thought America was "the land of the free".

亚历斯：我真的很惊讶，我以为美国是块自由之地。

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The thought processes of Alex and Griffin may approximate our own a lot or a little, says Pepperberg, but it's getting well-nigh impossible to deny their intelligence.

亚历克斯和格里芬的思维过程可能会与我们自己的有很多或有一点接近，佩珀堡说，但要否认它们的智力几乎是不可能的。

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Alex thought that BusinessWeek readers would find my story interesting, and asked me to tell it in my own words.

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First Minister Alex Salmond thought the election of the new Pope would be "welcomed by Scotland's Catholic community and by others around the world".

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Alex Salmond of the Scottish Nationalists thought he had read the public mood when he called the bombing a folly that would unite the Serbs.

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