他说：“我不认为状况像我们所说的那么好，但也不像他们说的那么糟。”

I do not think things are ever as good as we say and they are never as bad as they say.

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They sit in rows just as they would in the airplane and they say, "Oh, when are we gonna be in Japan?"

他们像在飞机上一样坐成排,然后说：,“我们什么时候到日本？“

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Mrs. Ray, Mrs. Bird, Mrs. Stocky, and Mr. Reed, all that love come as a little league of sports and so forth Responsibility for you as well?

雷女士，贝德女士，斯多奇女士，瑞德先生等等，我们就像一个相亲相爱的球队,他们也对你负责？

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And as we read, we have to fill in the nature of their relationship.

就像我们读到的那样，我们要自己去填补他们原本的关系。

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