Whatever it was Jimmy wanted to do—whether it was going to the opera or anything else—Harry would make an opposite choice.

吉米想做的任何事情——不管是去听歌还是干别的——哈里总会有相反的选择。

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They provide the diversions you want, which could be anything from snorkeling to the opera, depending on your interests.

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Which would leave him the option of spending it, if he cannot think of anything more useful, on the English National Opera, London's other great company, where at least the seats are cheaper, the atmosphere jollier, the operatic language English, but where English snobbery and uniformed flunkeys are mercifully absent.

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