他的朋友们说他以前总是张口就能讲笑话。

His friends say he was always quick to tell a joke.

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该商店一位发言人说：“他常常光顾这里。我们以前就注意他了。”

A spokesman for the shop said: "He comes here quite a lot. We've had our eye on him before."

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他说，日本男性渐渐地转向以前与女性有关的攻击，比如通过将人们排除在谈话之外来欺凌他人。

Japanese males have shifted increasingly to aggression previously linked with women, such as bullying others by excluding them from conversation, he said.

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A horse-drawing carriage in snowfalls that cause tires stick out of control with drivers gently toddles the ground and makes a nice pattern of black and white. That's how it used to be done, because he's a myth maker.

比如一辆马车在雪地上前行，但车轮松动,使马车夫不得不在雪地里慢条斯理地行进,这样的黑白画面塑造了很好的形象,这是他以前的做法，因为他是个创造神话的人，他说。

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