We made polite, stilted conversation.

我们说了些客气呆板的套话。

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We made stilted conversation for a few moments.

我们不自然地客套了几句。

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As we walked home, pushing the bike as we made our way along the sidewalk, she asked me about a conversation she'd overheard me having with my mother the night before.

回家时，我们推着自行车顺着人行道走，她问起昨天晚上我和我妈妈的一个美对话，那是她无意中听到的。

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"So far,we have had a constructive conversation and my hope is that by the time the chairman and I meet on Wednesday that we have made sufficient progress and we can start actually seeing a structure that would be in place."

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"While Mitt Romney and his allies are counting on big ad buys ... we've made early investments in battleground states -- where we've been registering folks and keeping an open conversation going with undecided voters for months -- to build an historic grassroots organization that will pay off when the votes are counted, " Obama campaign spokesman Adam Fetcher said.

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In fact, that was the conversation in the boardroom with Cingular when we made this decision.

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But in spite of Arduino's near ubiquity these days, we'll admit that we were a bit taken aback when the familiar blue microcontroller made an appearance on a lab desk during our conversation with NASA "lighting guy, " Dr. Eirik Holbert.

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