'I felt we might start in a very modest sort of way, say with three or four children,' she later wrote.

“我觉得我们或许以一种非常低调的方式开始，与三或四个孩子一起，”她后来写道。

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He did a sort of double take and said, “Brenda, next time you are talking bad about someone, make sure the three-way calling is disconnected.”

他看看我，走向旁边的房间时开始大笑，然后他回头又看了我一眼说，布伦达啊，下次说别人坏话时要确保三通电话是断开的。

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When countries had one, or two, or three television networks, then governments could, in a polite sort of way, instruct them to carry lots of very serious reports about the opening of a power station.

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One of the three great achievements of this encyclopedia is the way in which this view of fantasy provides a sort of grammar for describing it.

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