"Old Dave", as people called him, was selling minced beef sandwiches in his lunch bar as early as the 1880s.

早在19世纪80年代，人们就称他为“老戴夫”，他的餐吧在卖碎牛肉三明治。

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She asked him why people called him Barry and not Barack.

她问他为什么人们叫他柏瑞而不是巴拉克。

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People called him the dog and called his philosophy cynicism.

人们称他为狗，称他的哲学为犬儒主义。

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They called him a traitor. Yet most people of the North accepted Webster's appeal for compromise.

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Mr.Ahmedinejad thanked the Iranian people for choosing him, against what he called "a united front of world arrogance and psychological war launched by the enemy."

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People usually called him brave, even reckless.

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