但我想错了，她反而把自己的坚强与乐观呈现给读者，让我们知道了主人公并不是个懦弱胆怯的小女生。

But I was wrong, Contrary to her own strong and optimistic about the present to the reader, let us know that the protagonist is not a weak timid little girl.

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塞缪尔·埃利奥特·莫里森的权威著作《美国人的牛津历史》无耻中伤麦金利，称他温和驯良、懦弱胆怯。

He was infamously and unfairly traduced in Samuel Eliot Morison's magisterial "the Oxford History of the American People" as a kindly soul in a spineless body.

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我不知道是自己太胆怯还是太懦弱？或许是我们在自欺欺人！

I have no idea whether I am too timid or cowardly, or I am simply burying my head in the sand.

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