He just laughed to try and console himself through the pain.

他只是笑了笑，试图缓解自己的痛苦。

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Mr Chirac can at least console himself with the thought that his chief political rival will carry much of the blame.

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At any rate, the sheikh can console himself with the knowledge that the metro will be the world's biggest computer-operated train system, and its Union Station will have the world's biggest underground railway concourse.

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He can console himself with his salary which, according to The Economist's researches, is the highest of any rich-country central banker, and more than four times that paid to Alan Greenspan, chairman of America's Federal Reserve.

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