"Do you know," Peter asked, "why swallows build in the eaves of houses?"

“你知道燕子为什么在屋檐下筑巢吗？”彼得问。

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"Are you sure you can work out the problem yourself?" Peter asked me in disbelief.

“你确定你能自己解决这个问题吗？”彼得不相信地问我。

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Peter asked Mr Jones what his wife was doing these days.

彼得问琼斯先生他的太太最近在干什么。

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Peter asked to serve his time in Otisville Prison Camp (north of NYC), which is where Ponzi Schemer Kenneth Starr is serving his 90 month prison term.

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When GMP moved into their new glass-fronted headquarters recently, Sir Peter asked that the principles of Sir Robert Peel be written on the windows in letters that can be read 50m away.

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Afterward Peter asked Shirley Fong, the 32-year-old general manager, to hop in the car for the drive back to Guangzhou, "I was very surprised when he asked me to drive with the group, " says Fong.

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