She wanted to make him ask her why she was doing it and of course, he did.

她想让他问她，为什么要这么做，当然，他问了。

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When he reached the head of the stairs, she said to him: "I want to ask you something."

当他走到楼梯口时，她对他说：“我想问你一件事。”

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All day she wondered about her boss's strange question, but she was too embarrassed to ask him about it.

她一整天都在想老板那个奇怪的问题，但又不好意思去问他。

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He was a hobo by choice: As a little boy, he'd seen a hobo come up to ask his mother for a piece of pie and she had given it to him and when the hobo went off down the road the little boy had said, "Ma, what was that fellow?" "Why, that's a hobo."

他是自愿成为流浪汉的：,当他还是个小男孩的时候，他见过一个流浪汉向他妈妈,要一块派，他妈妈给他了,于是当流浪汉离开的时候小男孩就问，“妈妈，那个家伙是谁“，“是个流浪汉“

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She should ask him point blank if and why he thinks her views are middlebrow, and what exactly that is supposed to mean.

BBC: News | NEWSNIGHT | Jonathan Franzen interview transcript

President Joseph Estrada then made her secretary for social welfare, though she says she did not ask him to.

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In the beginning, she had to ask him often to complete tasks, but more recently he's been pitching in on his own.

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