"No, wife, " he said, "I cannot tell him that. It will come to no good. That is too much. the flounder cannot make you pope.

比目鱼啊，你在大海里，恳请你好好听我说仔细，我捉你放你没提愿望，老婆对此却不饶又不依。

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I am not an emotional type and so cannot bring myself to tell him I love him.

我不是情感外露的人，因此难以开口对他说我爱他。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

Whether the angels have fed him, or his kin beneath, I cannot tell; but he has not eaten a meal with us for nearly a week.

是天使养活他，还是地狱里他的同类养活他，我也说不上来；可是他有近一个星期没跟我们一起吃饭了。

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