When I did see him, he often sat slumped in his chair in a defeated pose I'd never encountered before.

我看到他的时候，他萎靡地靠在椅子里，那副萧索的姿态是我以前从未见过的。

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If he does so, he really goes beyond his depth, for the champion is never defeated.

如果他那样做，他的确是不自量力，因为那个冠军选手从未被击败。

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In doing so, he is never weighed down for long, never ultimately defeated either by the world or by his own considerable folly.

这样，他从不陷于沉重太久，也不会被世界或他自己的傻念头彻底的击败。

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Since being defeated by Hollande last May -- and vowing never to return to politics -- Sarkozy has kept a low profile, working at his law firm in central Paris.

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