From far away, the nine-storey teapot-shaped museum looks like some kind of huge work of art.

从远处看，这座九层楼高、茶壶形状的博物馆就像是某种巨大的艺术品。

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Is he, you know, like some kind of weird simpleton?

你知道的，他是那种古怪的傻瓜吗？

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But it's a special request, which is like some kind of blood oath.

但这是一个特别的要求，有点像歃血为盟。

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He looked like some kind of water buffalo.

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But if it watches you over some amount of time just like it's been for years with advertisements, can this kind of algorithm, this kind of process presumably improve?

但是如果它像关注广告一样,花费一些时间关注你，这些算法和进程，想必会提升吧？

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So we have to assume that the occasion for this poem is some kind of question posed by John Milton, Sr., a question like, "To what end am I supporting you, Son?

我们可以假定这个诗的起因是,老约翰弥尔顿问小弥尔顿，“我到底为什么要资助你，儿子？“

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"I didn't want his name dragged through the mud like some kind of deadbeat, " she says.

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It makes politics look like some kind of game that only the players understand.

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Nobody disrespects his views and, if they did, they would come off looking like some kind of contrarian crank.

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