This is clearly a conciliatory gesture towards his wife, Cherie, who has not seen as much of him as she might have hoped and he admits it.

这显然是对他的妻子切丽的一种和解姿态，切丽并没有像她希望的那样经常见到他，他也承认了这一点。

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Tangerine has become infatuated with her cousin orange for a while. Calling up all her courage, she goes over to him eventually.

橘子对她的橙子表哥心仪已久。她鼓足勇气，终于走到他身边。

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She has a dislike for [of; to] him.

她不喜欢他。

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She says that she has read a little bit of Kafka and "doesn't know what to make of him, but it makes you a bolder writer."

她说她读一点点卡夫卡的作品,而且“不知道是什么造就了卡夫卡，但这可以让自己成为,一个更大胆的作家“

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"If you get a doctor who is away in the village and has come across a case he or she thinks is beyond him or her, why cannot that doctor be able to link up easily with a senior doctor in Korle Bu to get advice on it?

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The Gates response to these numbers reminds me of a hip-hop song Positive K recorded 18 years ago, in which a cute girl in a club keeps telling him she already has a man, and he responds.

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The woman, startled, in turn tells another shopper that she has an appointment with him a few hours later in Samarra.

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