In some meetings, Gates would rarely speak; in others, he told stories from his Cold War glory days or cracked jokes about Washington's stuffed shirts.

在一些会议上，盖茨难得开口说话，而其他一些会议，则讲述他在冷战辉煌岁月的故事，或讲些有关华盛顿那些自命不凡的顽固者的笑话。

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He argues that Bismarck's misogyny stemmed from his childhood when he found himself in a triangle between his cold, intelligent and ambitious mother, whom he disliked, and his weak, kindly father.

他认为，俾斯麦对女性的厌恶源于童年经历，他幼年时发觉自己夹在父母中间，他不喜欢冷静聪慧、雄心勃勃的母亲，而他的父亲个性善良懦弱。

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His manner was cold and unwelcoming.

他的态度很冰冷也不友好。

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Late in March, 1841, his cold turned into pneumonia.

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This is, you see, also on 2 at the beginning here: I went to the cold-water flat with the boys and Dean came to the door in his shorts.

你们看，这也是在第二页的开始：,我和男孩们去了冷水公寓,安穿着短裤来到门口。

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And Charles Darwin actually, who was an astute observer of human behavior, tells a nice story to illustrate this: how "a native touched with his finger some cold preserved meat and plainly showed disgust at its softness whilst I felt utter disgust at my food being touched by a naked savage though his hands did not appear dirty."

达尔文，对人类行为观察入微，他有一个故事很好地解释了反感：,“一个土著用手指碰冷腌肉,那种软软的质地让他感到很反感,而让我感无无比反感的是我的食物,被一个没穿衣取的土著碰了，虽然他的手不脏“

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He just kept saying it was his cold and I stupidly believed him.

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Barbra Streisand's manager has called down from his suite, asking for a batch of chicken soup to soothe his cold.

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"I love it, " said Jim Brennen, who spent about an hour removing snow from his Cold Spring Hills driveway and walkway.

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