This kind-hearted girl, pitying the misery of Toad, said to her father one day, "Father!"

有一天，这个善良的姑娘为托德的不幸遭遇感到同情，对她的父亲说：“父亲！”

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And so one night, he closed the door to his room and evaluated his brothers and sisters as if he were a cold-hearted boss sent in to turn around a failing company.

于是有天晚上，他把自己的弟弟妹妹们锁在一间屋子中，那架势看上去就像一个冷酷无情的老板要拯救一家快要破产的公司一样。

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One is the legacy of Japan’s imperialist past and its begrudging, half-hearted apologies for wartime atrocities.

其一是日本的帝国主义历史遗产和它对战时暴行的勉强与半心半意的道歉。

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Obama is one cold-hearted calculator.

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Faced with collapsing fish populations, whether the disappearance of the cod fishery on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland or the failure of the North Sea herring fisheries, the reaction has been one of half-hearted measures: too little done too late in a chain of endless procrastination excused by the need for ever more scientific research.

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She didn't stop performing until she was 72 and choreographed one of her rare light-hearted works, Maple Leaf Rag, just a year before her death.

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