The evening started badly when the speaker failed to turn up.

那天晚上的活动一开始挺糟糕，因为演讲者没有来。

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The speaker worked the crowd up into a frenzy.

演讲者把听众的情绪煽动得疯狂起来。

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And it's at the height of this vision of our floral decoration of Lycidas' hearse that the speaker is suddenly caught up short.

都到了用鲜花装饰利西达斯的灵车,的时候了读者才突然领会到。

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Wrap-up speaker Cornel West went so far as to compare him to Europeans(ph), and Thomas Hardy.

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The Louisiana Republican, who announced he would challenge Gingrich before the speaker took himself out of contention, has all but locked up the speaker's gavel.

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Nonetheless, Mr Salmond was the spectre at the feast, conjured up by speaker after speaker.

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