My reply was that, no matter how cleverly he might present his paradoxes, he would never make me believe a mechanical puppet can be more graceful than a living human body.

我的回答是，不管他多么机敏地呈现他的矛盾，他都不能使我相信一个机械的木偶能够比一个活人的身体更优雅。

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But his reply, "No, do tell mother," dispelled her suspicions: it is the sort of reply a man who is going to marry would make.

然而他回答的那句“不，务必去告诉母亲”，消除了她的疑虑。这正是有意结婚的男人会说的话。

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In reply, we make you the firm offer for 250 M/Ts of peanuts, shelled, no grade, at CNY 2000 per M/T CFR EMP, subject to reaching us on or before September, 30.

此复，我方报实盘以你方时间9月30日复到为有效，250公吨花生，往壳，不分等级，每公吨人民币2000元，本钱加运费价欧洲主要港口价。

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