If I told him where I was, he would go the whole nine yards to help me but only to add to my trouble.

如果我告诉他我在那里，他就将去全部九个院子帮我，但这只会增加我的麻烦。

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With all of the excuses he had already put out there, I worried that he would say no completely if I told him that.

他已经找了那么多理由，我怕告诉他之后，他会更坚定的拒绝我。

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I had no sympathy for Blanche Stroeve, but knew that it would only pain poor Dirk if I told him exactly what I thought of her.

我对勃朗什·施特略夫一点也不同情，但是我知道，如果我把实话告诉可怜的戴尔克，只会增加他的痛苦。

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If I'm told "not so much for you," you'll suffer relative to him.

如果有人跟我说“你不怎么聪明”,你就会因为他而受到我冷落。

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He'd been diagnosed with, if I recall correctly, cancer as a freshmen--and his doctor had told him that he pretty much had no chance of recovery and indeed had only a couple more years to live.

他大一的时候就被诊断出癌症，如果我没记错的话--他的医生告诉他,他基本上没有治愈的可能了,并且实际上只有几年时间存活了。

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Before we'd even ordered, I asked him if I could get his opinion on something personal, but told him I would only feel comfortable sharing if he would then tell me something about himself.

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One day one of them told me to go with him to become a suicide bomber, but I told him if he wanted to kill people he should do it himself, not ask children.

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He asked me where I was going, and when I told him, he asked me if I had a place to stay.

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