Let's say, both John and Mary defer to her leadership.

假设，约翰和玛丽都服从她的领导。

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At their kindest, they may gently enquire why John or Mary isn't doing better, whether he or she is trying as hard as he or she should, and so on.

最善意的情况下，他们可能会温和地询问为什么约翰或玛丽没有做得更好，他或她是否拼尽全力，等等。

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When Mary broke off the engagement, John seemed to go into a flat spin.

玛丽毁除婚约，约翰似乎神经失常。

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A writer like Mary Astell can employ Milton's revolutionary rhetoric to advance a cause to which John Milton himself would of course ; have had difficulty subscribing; a dead Milton could exercise a social power that had nothing whatsoever to do with the living Milton's own social views.

一个像玛丽·阿斯苔这样的作者可以用弥尔顿的革命性语言,来推动一项事业，一项约翰·弥尔顿本人当然很难,赞同的事业;,死去的弥尔顿竟然能够操纵与生前弥尔顿的社会观点,毫无关系的社会力量。

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John completed studies at the college of William and Mary, and became a lawyer.

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In the alley behind Ford's, Mary Anderson watched John Peanut walking Booth's impatient horse back and forth.

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