"Damn you," he sputtered. "Could you not have told me sooner?"

“他气急败坏地说”你为什么不早点告诉我？

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"To speak Latin and Greek, French and German?" he sputtered on, turning red himself.

说着拉丁语，希腊语，法语和德语？

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He had promised to harvest a few ribbons of corn that wound around the hills on a friend's farm, but after harvesting his own corn, Grandpa's little corn picker coughed, sputtered and quit.

那年他答应了一个朋友为他收割一片坡地上的玉米。可是刚刚收完自己的庄稼，爷爷的小收割机就累得上气不接下气，垮了。

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When that scene sputtered in the mid-1980s, he got by mostly through touring and re-recording his classics for new, younger audiences.

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