Gene Bonti bring home ingredients for that nights' dinner he will cook for his wife Bobbie.

吉恩买回为妻子的晚餐准备的食材。

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That would be one of the wild nights he needed even once in a while, to get drunk with his friends, and he didn't want a wife along then.

除夕之夜乃是他每隔一段时间就需要来一次的狂欢之夜，同他的朋友一起喝得醉醺醺的；

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Other nights, he would fall asleep between his two gauchos and dream that his wife was leading their children by the hand and scolding him for the way he had let himself lapse into brutishness.

NEWYORKER: The Insufferable Gaucho

After his wife's death in 1970, he set out to do just that, by burning out his nights and reputation in the company of homosexuals although some biographers argue that all he did was finally let fall the mask and reveal his true self.

ECONOMIST: French muses