Oilman-to-be Pickens also showed zeal as a 12-year-old paperboy, quickly expanding his 28-house paper route to 156 by taking over the routes of his competitors.

未来石油大亨皮肯斯也在12岁的时候显示出他的热情，通过接管竞争对手的送报额，他很快把自己的28份送报额增加到了156份。

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The paper starts its editorial comment with a quote from an unnamed member of the House.

该报社论以一位匿名议员的引语展开。

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Even when he was nationally famous in the 1850s he resembled a clerk in a third-rate brokerage house, with slips of paper—marked-up proofs perhaps—hanging out of his pockets or stuck in his hat.

即使在19世纪50年代他是全国知名人物时，他也像个三流经纪行的职员，也许还会把一些可能是有标记证明的纸片挂在他的口袋外面或插在他帽子里。

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The White House paper did not refer to Zarqawi as a possible suspect in the embassy bombing.

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We go through shoes in my house like paper towels.

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The company has been using and developing their own intelligence test, the content of which is considered so valuable a trade secret that it is done only in-house and on paper.

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