Last year I met a short-statured mother with an average-height teenage son.

去年我遇到了一个侏儒妈妈和她身高正常的儿子。

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But there is another view, and Chen Mingjing, the owner of the theme park, and some of his short-statured workers present it forcefully.

但是依然有另一种声音存在，那就是这座主题公园的所有者——陈明净(姓名根据拼音音译)以及他的一些同事们的看法。

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They pose the theory that perhaps we see so many short-statured, elderly people because they are, in fact, living longer than their taller peers.

他们提出这个一个观点，我们之所以看到这么多矮个子的老年人或许是因为他们实际上比那些身材较高的同辈活得更长。

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Patrick De Bana's "Labyrinth of Solitude, " for a bare-chested Mr. Vasiliev, used the "Ciaconne" attributed to Tomaso Antonio Vitali to underpin a vignette for the intense, short-statured Russian that intermittently launched him into applause-winning spins and jumps meant, perhaps, to show the agony of art.

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