Every A-list sycophant in American used to show up there in the early 1990s, back when it wasn't embarrassing to admit that you were a friend of Bill Clinton.

美国所有在A级名单里的马屁虫都在上世纪90年代去过那里，等到能够光明正大地承认自己是克林顿的朋友的时候就返回来。

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I don’t think I ever really understood it until I read my friend Bill Styron’s brave account of his own battle with depression and suicidal thoughts, Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness.

我一直不能真正理解这种病，直到我读了我的朋友比尔.斯蒂伦的作品《看得见的黑暗：走过忧郁症的心路历程》——勇敢地披露了他自己与忧郁症和自杀的念头进行抗争的故事。

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While all of us considered Paul a friend and valued his contribution, there is no question that Bill had a far larger impact on the growth and success of Microsoft than did Paul.

以前我们都当保罗是朋友，也很看重他对公司的贡献，不过，毫无疑问，比尔对微软的增长和成功所起的作用要比保罗大得多。

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Hubbell, a longtime friend of President Bill Clinton, served 18 months in prison for mail fraud and tax evasion in a case involving overbilling of law clients.

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As it stood, he could only wince inwardly at this second, false personality, while making a good show of laughing along as Bill made a friend of all the young soldiers whom Hanwell himself had not yet managed to befriend.

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In the Lott affair, this paid off: Mr Bush not only got his friend, Bill Frist, appointed leader of the Senate, but also neutralised an issue that the Democrats had hoped to use against him in the forthcoming election.

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