He once described the future as "the rapids" -traversable terrain that required intense concentration on the task in hand.

它将所能看到的未来称作“湍流”——这个遍历的过程需要将精力高度集中在手头的任务上。

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He once described music as auditory cheesecake and suggested that if it vanished from the species little else would change.

他曾经将音乐比作一个听觉芝士蛋糕，称如果蛋糕从同种之间消失，没什么会发生改变。

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He once described Mr Gates's PCs as "ridiculous" on the (in fact far-sighted) grounds that they should be replaced with simpler devices that could access software over the Internet.

他曾经用“荒谬”描述盖茨的PCs，并称应该被直接能从互联网上得到的类似设备取代(事实上，这点非常有远见)。

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Petraeus is registered to vote as a Republican in New Hampshire he once described himself to a friend as a northeastern Republican, in the tradition of Nelson Rockefeller but he said that around 2002, after he became a two-star general, he stopped voting.

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The "ethyl in my gasoline, " as he once described it, was an intense pride in achievement, something that first overtook him at the end of the first week of first grade when his teacher in the one-room schoolhouse in Possum Hollow praised him for mastering the alphabet in five days.

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One of Achebe's most fervent admirers has been Nelson Mandela, who once described the sense of hope he derived from reading Achebe in prison.

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