They asked him to leave—in other words he was fired.

他们请他走人，也就是说，他被解雇了。

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They asked him who Alberto was.

他们便询问他谁是阿尔贝托。

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They asked him what reward he wanted.

他们问他想要什么报酬。

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His friends became concerned. One by one, they asked him if he was able to drive home safely.

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Somebody rose and asked him if he had considered putting the elements in alphabetical order. They were very cruel.

有人起来问他,是否考虑过将这些元素,按字母顺序排列，他们非常冷酷。

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I was tremendously interested in the letters because they so naively and sweetly asked Chad to teach him all about Nietzsche and all the wonderful intellectual things that Chad knew. At one point Carlo and I talked about the letters and wondered if we would ever meet the strange Dean Moriarty.

我对那些信极感兴趣,因为他们是如此天真烂漫讨人喜欢地让乍得,教他们一切他所了解的关于尼采的精妙的知识,卡洛和我一度一起讨论那些信,还怀疑我们是否能遇上奇怪的安莫里亚蒂。

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But when banking chiefs met Mr King on March 20th, they asked him to do more.

ECONOMIST: Credit squeeze

Still he will write this story and not mention they asked him for his race or gender.

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Being of a suspicious nature, they asked him to open his rucksack.

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