When he passed a park, he saw a man sawing a big branch from a tree. The man was on a ladder and the ladder was against the big branch he was sawing.
路过一个公园时,他看见一个人在锯一棵大树的树枝。
Big man Well, waist width back thick, four foot, upright, holding on, put the next, so a man is doing big business.
大男人嘛,腰宽背厚,脚踏四方,顶天立地,拿的起,放的下,所以男人干的是大事业。
They worship bigness yet idealize the little man, whether he be the small business man as opposed to the big one or the plain citizen as opposed to the big wheel.
他们崇拜大人物,也把小人物理想化,不论他是和大商人形成对照的小商人,还是和大权在握的人形成对照的平民百姓。
Old-timers used it to describe a man who had just arrived from one of the big cities back east.
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And he said,to his credit, "no,without my principles I am just"-- as he put it rather indelicately and cruelly about himself-- "a fat man with a big limp."
令人钦佩的是,他说,"不,如果不守我的原则我就是"--,好像他本来不是那么粗野,那么残酷一样--,"一个大胖瘸子"
I run out of the house and then usually around 3 o'clock somebody points out, in one case a homeless man, that I have a big glob of shaving cream in my ear or-- because I neglected to actually look in the mirror while I shaved.
然后冲出家门,大概到了下午三点时,会有人跟我说,有一次是一个流浪汉,告诉我,我耳朵上有一团剃须膏-,因为我剃须时忘了,照镜子。
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