I asked gently, "Has the doctor come?"

我轻轻地问：“大夫来过了吗？”

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I asked her gently, and as non-judgmentally as I could, whether she wanted to kill me because I was a foreigner.

我尽量保持客观，温和地问她是否会因为我是一名外国人而想要杀了我。

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Yet when Craig Petray, NutraSweet’s chief executive, is asked whether stevia tastes good, he replies gently: “I would say it tastes really different.”

然而当NutraSweet的执行总裁克雷格Craig Petray被问到甜叶菊的口感好不好时，他轻轻回答道：“我要说它的口感确实与众不同。”

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So, I pulled her into the hallway and gently asked her to take a few minutes to compose herself in a nearby conference room.

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