"Dear John," the letter began. "I have found someone else whom I think the world of."

“亲爱的约翰，”信是这么开头的，“我找到了另一个人，我愿意与他共度一生。”

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Dear George, I remember I said 'no 'to someone last night, but I had forgotten who it was.

亲爱的乔治，我记得昨晚是对一个人说了‘不’，但忘了那人是谁。

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There had been someone in my life over the last few years who, although they had been a dear friend in the past, had betrayed and disrespected our friendship.

过去的几年中，有些人在我的生活中，即使他们曾经是我的好朋友，但他们背叛或者并不尊重我们的友谊。

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It might even be passed on to someone you hold dear and become an heirloom.

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Then I did it in my second Test match at Edgbaston and someone wrote into dear old Brian Johnston on Test Match Special and he let the cat out of the bag.

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"We lost a man and a family lost someone very, very dear to them and he was very dear to us, " he told reporters.

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