He had met his old lady when he was a house painter and she was a waitress.

他认识他老婆的时候还是个油漆工，而她是个女服务员。

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The son of a bankrupt bookseller, he had gone to work as a house-painter at eighteen, and then served three years in France and India during the war.

他父亲是个破了产的书商，他十八岁就工作了，当房屋油漆工，然后打仗时，去法国和印度服役三年，之后又在那里待了几年。

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The 46-year-old handyman and house painter, who lives outside of Baltimore, had had hepatitis C, which causes liver damage, for several years.

他今年46岁，是个勤杂工和粉刷匠，居住在巴尔的摩市郊，由于身患丙型肝炎数年，肝脏受到损伤。

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