I realise that this has an incongruous sound, when applied to such stories as that of the little pig at the stile or of the greedy cat who ate up man and beast.

我了解不同的故事体会是不一样的(比如去讲那种像篱笆边的小猪或者贪吃的小猫吃了人和野兽啦等等这些故事)。

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Be your own man. Make up your own mind.

做自己的主人，自己做决定吧。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

You'd better get rid of that attitude and shape up, young man.

年轻人，你最好改掉那种态度，学学好。

《牛津词典》

She came out of the bushes and looked up into the face of a tall young man carrying a gun.

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On the stair leading up into the disinfectant-smelling twilight of a rooming house, she saw an old man huddled, shaking with grief she couldn't hear.

登上梯子，在一间散发着,消毒水气味的昏暗公寓里，她看到了一个老人缩成一团，以一种他无法感受的哀伤颤抖着。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

I'll just take up the list toward the end: "transcendentality, consciousness, or conscience, God, man, and so forth."

我来把这张表说完：,“先验性，意识，上帝，人类，等“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

He is a start-up man, with, (pardon the pun), no intention to ever stop.

FORBES: The Start-Up Man: Naif al-Mutawa

"I was supposed to be the warm-up man - but that storm had other ideas, " he said.

BBC: The hurricane stealing the candidates' thunder

He began his television career as a warm-up man for Michael Parkinson, Michael Aspel and Jimmy Tarbuck.

BBC: Dave Lee