This may not be surprising, as manipulative people have the ability to mold social situations to their advantage and play on other people's weaknesses.

这一点也许并不让人惊奇，因为善于操控的人有能力让社会境遇变得对他有利并且利用他人的弱点。

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What is incomprehensible is that the WICB, after the first Test against South Africa last March, when most of the senior players chose not to play, still expected these same players to agree to the same clauses, with some manipulative prose, that had caused problems back then.

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