But this does not stop him from working. He says that he is leaving a gift to the city with his art.

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He says this in his last Russian novel, The Gift.

他在最后一本其俄语小说《礼物》中这么说。

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That's not to say he wasn't a brilliant thinker, but here the gift of a good minds and good hands, like the two parts of the MIT logo: two parts rolled into one.

这并不是说他不是一个很好的思考家，但是好的大脑，好的动手能力，就像MIT的标志一样：,两者相结合。

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"He was given the gift of time that his brothers were not, and he used that gift to touch as many lives and right as many wrongs as the years would allow, " the president said.

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Once more Henry stepped up to the plate but this time he was gift-wrapped a present by Thompson's woeful backpass and made no mistake, rounding Pollitt and tapping in.

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He possessed a gift for refusing without the refusee realizing that he had just been refused.

NEWYORKER: Waiting