He told her that she was his favourite author and that she deserved the Nobel Prize for literature. He really laid it on with a trowel.

他对她说，她是自己最喜欢的作家，还说她应该获得诺贝尔文学奖。

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Obama certainly did instantly seek maximum political advantage and rather laid it on with a trowel.

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