George was only half pleased to be asked to dinner on that particular day when the general was not to dine.

乔治见他特意在将军不在家吃饭的一天请他去，心里不大舒服。

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That's why I am pleased that half of the first wave will be in deprived areas, and the vast majority in areas where they desperately need school places.

这是为什么我很高兴第一批免费学校中的一半能开在贫穷地区的原因。这些地方的大多数人都非常需要这些学校。

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And so it pleased me, in a half-laughing way, to leave pieces of money on the turf as I went along, until I had left enough for my night's lodging.

所以在我动身离开的时候，我很满意的以一种半开玩笑的方式，在草地上留下了足够的钱以支付夜间住宿的费用。

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The Essex stood half over the other prophet as if it were pleased to guard what it had finally brought down. The man didn't look so much like Haze lying on the ground on his face without his hat or suit on. A lot of blood was coming out of him and forming a puddle around his head.

埃塞克斯看着这个先知，好像很高兴地守卫着,自己撞倒的这个人，这个男人看起来与海斯并不相像,没有戴着帽子或穿着西装趴在地上，一大堆血,从他的体内涌出，在头部附近形成了一个水坑状的东西。

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Its isolated population live just as they have for centuries, seeming half-pleased and half-snubbed at being left out of the hubbub of the neighbouring islands.

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United struggled in the first half, but Ferguson was pleased with a much-improved performance after the break.

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"I've just said to them, very pleased with the second half but give me an explanation why there's no urgency like that from minute one, " Shearer told Press Association.

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