Why couldn't you just come joust with us, the way the king wanted?

你为什么不能按国王要求的那样和我们一齐格斗？

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For the first purpose it is seldom mounted with a sharp "Point of War" and never sharpened for the purpose of recreating a medieval joust.

出于其第一点设计意图，枪尖很少有在战斗中磨尖过，而在中世纪作为娱乐的枪术比赛里则从不把枪头磨尖。

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He wouldn't hesitate to joust with reporters or take them to task if he thought they were simply posturing for the camera.

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Mr. Langford, in a telephone interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper Monday night, said now wasn't the time to get into a verbal joust with the governor but said Mr. Christie was ill-advised and misinformed.

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If you like fast planes, cool technology, heroic entrepreneurs who joust with the old guard and tale-telling worthy of Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff, then Free Flight is the book for your summer reading.

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