It is absurd to call him a fanatic.

称他为狂热信徒是可笑的。

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After he bought the new car, his friends started to call him a bourgeois.

他买了新车之后，朋友们开始称他为中产阶级。

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I was careful to call him a few days in advance to "warn" him that we would be coming.

我特意提前给他打电话，“提醒”他我们将光临。

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She gave birth to Thomas -- or Tiggy, as his parents call him -- at a hospital in Washington.

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All the women in Dean's life call him to the carpet and tell him of all his sins. That's a sad moment in the novel, a moment of difficulty, a moment of specificity also.

所有在迪安生命里出现的女人都向他,斥责他所有的罪恶，这也是小说中悲伤地部分，是困难的时刻，也是专属于他的时刻。

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From reading of such books," Hobbes continues, "men have undertaken to kill their kings because the Greek and Latin writers in their books and discourses of policy make it lawful and laudable for any man to do so provided before he do it he call him a tyrant."

正是因为这些阅读，他们意识到他们可以弑杀他们的君王,因为希腊和拉丁作家们,在他们的书籍和演讲中宣称,任何人都可以合法地弑杀他们的暴君,而且他们的此举也将是值得赞赏的“

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It is not an understatement to call him a lighting rod around the world.

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But to call him a bigot in the process is unfair and undeserved.

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"It's been an absolute honour and a privilege to play with him and even more so to call him a mate, " said McGrath.

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