If he hadn't been so good at the rest of his job, I probably would have sacked him.

如果他不是在工作的其他方面做得这么好，我可能已经把他解雇了。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

Ben Weatherstaff says the robin is so conceited he would rather have stones thrown at him than not be noticed.

本·韦瑟斯塔夫说知更鸟太自大了，宁愿别人朝他扔石头，也要引起别人的注意。

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'You should have told me!' she flared at him.

“你应该告诉我的！”她气冲冲地对他说。

《牛津词典》

I looked hard at him. I could not have been more surprised if he has said the same thing about Nepoleon, or Socrates,or Solomon.

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In other words, Foucault is up to something interesting, and probably we should meet him at least halfway to see, to measure, the degree of interest we may have in it.

换言之，福柯在从事很有趣的事业，或许我们至少可以在半途加入他的行列,去看看我们是否也能对此有兴趣。

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CFO He could have been CFO at lots of other companies, but he stayed with the company, and the company stayed with him.

他可以去很多其它的公司做，但他没有放弃公司，公司也没有放弃他。

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It must have eaten at him, knowing he was training his future bosses.

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But Stone told a couple of my colleagues, 'Say sorry to Peter Cooper for me - I shouldn't have aimed at him.

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Then the public might have laughed at him rather than with him.

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