Now take up that basket, and go on to the Pure Drop Inn, telling them to send a horse and carriage with a servant here quickly, to carry me home.

现在拿着那个篮子，到纯酒酒店去，告诉他们派一匹马和马车带着仆人赶快到这儿来，接我回家。

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So, understandably, nothing makes you crazier than someone who just won't cut to the chase when they're telling a story or refuses to take a shortcut when they know they're running late.

因此，可是理解的是，没有什么比下面的事更让你恼羞成怒了：比如有人对你说谎而又不允许你刨根问底，或是他们明知道已经来不及了却又拒绝走捷径。

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Although you can easily start blogging right now by setting up a simple blog and telling people to visit it, most bloggers take a while to get good at blogging.

尽管你可以马上很容易地建立一个博客并让别人来浏览，但大多数的博主还是需要一段时间才能有一个比较好的博客。

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Language has powers that are entirely unpredictable, that can't be harnessed in precisely that deliberate way: by making a decision to take someone's words in the wrong way, or by telling a story to make a moral point, as the mother does.

语言的力量无可估量，绝不是单单使用一下那么简单：,而是通过假意遵从，以及勾起人性良知的方式表达的。

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As people, they were warm and friendly, though they could've been telling me to take a flying leap and I wouldn't have known the difference.

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