He was glad no one asked him what first impressions are; they were all too busy looking their best.

他很高兴没有人问他第一印象是什么；他们都忙着打起精神。

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He had long passed sixty, when, one day, some one asked him: "Have you never been married?"

一天在他早已过了六十岁时，有个人问他：“难道您从来没有结过婚吗？”他说：“我忘了。”

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One day, a rich man asked him to paint a portrait for him and promised to pay him 10,000 dollars.

一天，一个富人请他为他画一幅肖像画，并答应付给他一万美元。

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But one morning he come in, and Smiley asked him how was his wife, and he said she was better,thank God.

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I was tremendously interested in the letters because they so naively and sweetly asked Chad to teach him all about Nietzsche and all the wonderful intellectual things that Chad knew. At one point Carlo and I talked about the letters and wondered if we would ever meet the strange Dean Moriarty.

我对那些信极感兴趣,因为他们是如此天真烂漫讨人喜欢地让乍得,教他们一切他所了解的关于尼采的精妙的知识,卡洛和我一度一起讨论那些信,还怀疑我们是否能遇上奇怪的安莫里亚蒂。

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He was ninety-four years old. Someone once asked him if he thought he would still be playing at one hundred years old.

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Asked why, Mr. Le Meur said one attendee asked him to put it away.

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Once, leaders from one church asked him to be their pastor.

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He's usually at the finish line, but he'd spent most of the previous four days doing appearances for the race, and no one had asked him to come to the finish line this year.

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