At dinner, I made polite, boring talk at the table - no mention of our past, of my feelings, of what was really on my mind. I was in Straight Steve mode.

吃饭的时候，我很客气地说了些无聊的话——没有提到我们的过去，没有提到我的感觉，没有提到自己内心真实的想法，那时我处于直人史蒂夫模式。

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One such boring and laborious task is preparing a table of contents.

解析内容表就属于比较单调、费劲的任务。

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Unusually deep front to back for a small lathe the saddle carried an almost boring-table sized T-slotted cross slide fitted with a "bridge bracket" at the front.

非常深刻的前向后一小车床进行鞍几乎镗表大小的T型槽交叉幻灯片装有“桥梁支架”在前面。

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And as in the previous ad, the updates come to life as a ballerina performs on the dinner table and friends have a snowball fight while the boring relatives go on, you know, talking and listening to each other.

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