If a child is always a person, or pretend to be ill to avoid extra curricular activities, or to send expensive gifts to please others, it is likely to have no friends at school.

假如小孩总是本人一个人，或者伪装生病逃避课外活动，又或以送贵重礼物来讨好他人，很可能就会在学校没有朋友。

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Certainly, it means a delay in giving the ill-paid their bonus, but that can always be blamed on the opposition.

ECONOMIST: France