Gandhi was a very humble, down to earth, ordinary human-being but therein lay his power and authority.

甘地是一个十分谦卑、平易近人的平凡的人——在其中却蕴含着他的能量和权力。

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He had been among the first, back in the 1970s, to see the potential that lay in the idea of selling computers to ordinary people.

还在20世纪70年代时，他是最早发现把电脑卖给普通人这一想法据有潜力的人之一。

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The new saint, born in northern Spain in 1902, in his earthly days was a priest of forceful personality, much self-flagellation and attractive ideas of the personal sanctity that the lay Christian could achieve in ordinary life.

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Nevertheless, it's disappointing that a movie so intent on immersing us in the moment should sink into such a swamp of back story and then -- in the sorry pop-psych tradition of "Ordinary People" -- lay the blame squarely on Mom.

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