He paid his attention all to this thing, as an idler might observe the feat of a juggler, without interest in the outcome.

他把全部注意力都集中在这件事上，就像一个游手好闲的人在观看一场魔术师技艺表演，对最后的结果并不感兴趣。

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They did a story on me once, a whole feature article that won the reporter some big award, so they figured they owed me or something and invited me to this thing.

他们报道过我一次，那篇特别报道帮记者得了一个什么大奖，他们大概觉得欠我的情，所以就邀请了我。

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(Laughter) The longer you guys stand there, the longer it's going to take to unload this thing.

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Now at Harvard Thinks Big I happened to tear into this thing myself and it would seem a little pointless to re-hash that same demo so instead I thought I'd solicit an ideally sufficiently strong volunteer to come on up.

现在在“哈佛大梦想”的讨论会上,我反复思考这件事,觉得再演示一遍似乎意义不大,因此我想找一位合适的志愿者,上讲台来。

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At long last we come to this thing.

最后我们终于来到这一讲。

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Is he disappointed that most states still have not signed on to this thing?

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney,

So the public is emotionally tied in to finding a solution to this thing, and that's what I hope the administration will find out.

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Charlie 1: The walls to this thing are, uh, poured concrete.

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