If he sounds happy that you call during the day, invites you to his office and takes you to company parties, you're most likely his one and only partner.

如果他白天接到你的电话很开心，邀请你到他的办公室，带你参加他的同事聚会，那么你往往是他唯一的伴侣。

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But kind lies can be too much of a good thing if a man habitually says only what his partner wants to hear. It sets the woman up for rude awakenings.

但是善意的谎言说的多了，好事也变成坏事了，比如说男人专捡女人喜欢听的说，时间长了，反倒害女人落下个不明事理的毛病。

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If only some handsome boy invited me to be his partner at the ball.

要是有个英俊的小伙子邀请我做他的舞会搭档就好了。

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At the close on day three England had scored 38 of the 132 needed for victory, skipper Hutton the only man out, the fourth and final time he was run-out in his illustrious career, and the only one to involve his trusty partner Edrich.

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This strategy of accommodation without unity of purpose is what Italians call trasformismo, an ethos that was still alive and well in 1983, when the Socialist leader Bettino Craxi was invited to become Prime Minister, despite the fact that his party was only a minor partner in the mainly Christian Democrat coalition.

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