He was unabashed in his mannerisms a man who seemed to live so fully inside this hexed world of suicide that he had little time for polish or polite chitchat or getting-to-know-you.

他性格古怪，毫不矫饰自己的癖性，似乎全身心投入在自己被诅咒的自杀世界，以致无暇顾及优雅礼貌的谈话或是仅仅与人结识。

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Of course, a man is not going to cry like a baby, but he will make little complaints or make a simple statement.

当然男人不会像小孩那样哭闹，但他们只会小小的抱怨和简单的说说。

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Though modern jockeys are diminutive in size and this gives them an advantage of being light on a horses back, the meaning of “little man” was more along the lines of “commoner” or “underling.”

虽然现代的骑师通常都身材矮小，那将使他们在马背上更加轻盈，但“little man”的含义更类似于“平民”或“下属”。

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In Barack Obama we have a man with little patience or taste for true leadership, with a defining disproportion between his experience and his power, who is a bigger hypocrite than Romney and far more consequentially so.

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