One of Rosenberg's closest friends noted that, if he thought you had crossed him, he could be brutal: “He was always very honest—sometimes, perhaps, too honest.

罗森博格最亲密的朋友谈到，若他认为你反对他，他会残酷无情：“他总是非常直率，不过有时候，可能直率过了头。

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One of Rosenberg's closest friends noted that, if he thought you had crossed him, he could be brutal: "he was always very honest-sometimes, perhaps, too honest."

罗森博格最亲密的朋友谈到，若他认为你反对他，他会残酷无情：“他总是非常直率，不过有时候，可能直率过了头。”

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Before I was going to senior school, my father had never said a word to show his love to me, so that I thought he did not love me very much and sometimes I was upset about it.

在我上高中之前，我父亲曾对我说了一句话来表达他对我的爱，所以我认为他不是很爱我，有时候我对此感到很苦恼。

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And sometimes had them killed if he had to if he thought that's what he should do, because there wasn't any sort of challenge to his authority.

如果有必要,他甚至会杀掉那些碍事的议员,因为没有什么可以挑战他的权威

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He added that he thought the country sometimes had a "very negative view of the opportunities of the modern world, for example of globalisation".

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At last week's Acker wine auction, he sat at a central table at the Tribeca Grill in downtown Manhattan, raising his paddle frequently, casually, just a little flip of the wrist, confident that his bid would be registered, sometimes lowering it with a shrug when he thought the price had gone too high and sometimes dueling on a particularly choice lot until he won.

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But his broker had sometimes recommended preferred stock, and if my client thought it sounded safe, he would agree to buy it.

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