It was kind of stupid that she believed him.

她真有点蠢，竟然相信了他。

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And she saw what he meant, and she believed him, too; because how could he have touched her when she, the real she, wasn't even in the same room (or, possibly, the same universe) that he was in?

看他那一本正经的样子，她也就信了他；因为当她，那个原本的她甚至都没有跟他呆在同一个房间里(或者可能在同一个宇宙里)，怎么能碰到她呢？

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"I've always believed you are a talented man," she told him.

“我一直相信你是一个有才华的人。”她告诉他。

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She said her husband, Kermit, told her the abortions were all performed within the legal limit and she believed him.

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For some reason, she believed him.

NEWYORKER: Temporary

We can look at his words and try and analyze his words, but Ms. Currie says that she didn't believe he was trying to influence her and that if she'd said something different from him, she believed something different from him, she would have felt free to say it.

CNN: Transcript: White House Deputy Counsel Mills' statement