The Nobel laureate is in demand only from organisations “in need of a mortal sprinkled with Stockholm’s magic dust”.

因为只有那些想要诺贝尔头衔的机构才“需要身上点缀‘斯德哥尔摩’魔力光环的庸才”。

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A mortal only has one destiny - death.

人的命运只有一个-死亡。

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The Nobel laureate is in demand only from organizations "in need of a mortal sprinkled with Stockholm's magic dust".

因为只有那些想要诺贝尔头衔的机构才“需要身上点缀‘斯德哥尔摩’魔力光环的庸才”。

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Perhaps the only giveaway that Watson was not a mere mortal, other than its insane speed, accuracy, and glowing LCD screen?

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The same spell made it appear that he had a name, though his parents had only ever called him Boy, never having learned his mortal name, because he was the only boy under the hill.

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Tony Blair once told a Labour conference a story about the man employed by Prince Philip of Macedonia, the father of Alexander the Great, to carry a black stick with a pig's bladder on the end and wake him up at night to remind him he was only mortal.

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