Miss Allan beamed at him. "You are clever to guess. I'm sure I don't know how you did it."—"Deduction," James said.

阿伦小姐对他笑道：“你很会猜， 我确实不知道你怎么办到的。”——杰姆斯说：“推论。”

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She said it did not matter how short or long his neck was.

她说，他的脖子是长是短都无所谓。

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When the magistrate asked Wang what had happened, he answered, "Zhou said that there were fresh red dates in it when he gave me the jar a year ago." The magistrate examined the jar and the fresh red dates in it carefully. Then he said: "Bring the ingots back, Wang Wu!" How did the county magistrate infer that Wang was lying?

县令问王是怎么回事，王回答说：“一年前给我的时候，周说这罐子里有新鲜的红枣。”县令仔细地检查了坛子和里面新鲜的红枣。然后他说：“王五，把金锭拿回来！”县令是怎么推断王在撒谎的？

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Marian said she always sang naturally, without any thought of how she did it.

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And I read the documentation, did what it said, and that's how I got my program to compile.

我阅读那个文档，照它说的做，那就是我如何便于我的程序的。

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You said you went to study in London. How did you like it?

你说你要去伦敦上学。为什么你想去伦敦呢？

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"It's going to be 10 weeks of hell ... to hear this man, to hear his explanation of why he did it and how he did it, " said Trond Henry Blattmann, whose son was killed on Utoya Island.

CNN: Rampage suspect says he acted to save Norway

"It's an electronic middleman that basically knows that a transaction occurs but it doesn't know who did it and how it was done, " said Don Upson, secretary of technology and chief information officer for Virginia.

CNN: The Internet tax revolt

The DoH revealed that its officials had approved more than 400 severance payments in the last five years, but it said it did not know how much of the money may have been tied to so-called gagging clauses - the BBC Radio 4 Today programme's Andrew Hosken reported.

BBC: Whitehall role in NHS staff pay-offs revealed