He elevated many of his friends to powerful positions within the government.

他将许多朋友都提拔到政府部门的要职上。

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Many times when my father was sitting with his male friends, he would call out for me to come to him.

很多次，当我父亲和他的男性朋友坐在一起时，他会喊我去到他跟前去。

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As a result, people like doing business with him and he has made many friends during his career.

因此，人们喜欢和他做生意，他在职业生涯中交了很多朋友。

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He was eighty-nine years old. At his funeral, many family members and friends honored him by wearing red clothes.

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Many Americans blamed President Grant for not acting quickly enough to stop the activity of his two friends.

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They did not want to face his many dangerous friends.

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He drives an hour each way to his job as a mechanic, but says many of his friends, "had to go in the military to get out of town, " and get a job.

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But many of his friends are still sleeping outside, because they can't prove their age.

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Eisenstein was lucky to avoid the camps, in which so many of his friends suffered and died.

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