He made a figure of Santa Claus.

他制作了一个圣诞老人塑像。

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Sandman's experimentation has made him something of a cult figure on the local music scene.

桑德曼的实验已经使他成为当地音乐领域颇受人崇拜的人物。

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Let me remind you of that other intrusive moment in the poem, the moment when a figure whose presence we hadn't been aware of suddenly made -suddenly asserted himself.

我来提醒一下你们，诗里有另外一个被侵入的时刻，一个我们仍未可知的，突如其来的角色,突然出现的时刻,他毫无预兆的将自己安插进来。

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I got interested in this--well, I got interested in this as a developmental psychologist watching my own children laugh and trying to figure out what it is that made them laugh.

我对笑感兴趣…,身为一个长成心理学家,当我看到我孩子笑时，我就对这个议题感兴趣了,我想弄明白是什么令他们笑的。

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She cannot speak the Ariekei tongue, but she is an indelible part of it, having long ago been made a figure of speech, a living simile in their language.

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But the company kept coming back with more and more questions, and a year later they made a seven-figure offer with a per-unit royalty tacked on as well.

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Barry also inherited from Bobby, who was subjected to frequent racial taunts on the field, his lack of reverence for baseball as a cultural institution rather than as a paycheck, which made him a polarizing figure from the start.

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