In Governor Sanford's case, neither he nor is wife is doing that - instead she tried to forgive him for his infidelity while he tried to fall in love with her.

还是说桑福德州长那个例子，无论是他或者是他妻子想要重归于好——她反而会尽力原谅他的不忠既然他也竭力试着和好。

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Citigroup’s chief executive, Vikram S. Pandit, after nearly two years of earning a mere $1 in salary while he tried put the bank back on track, was recently awarded a $1.75 million salary.

花旗集团的首席执行官，维克拉姆•潘迪特（Vikram S. Pandit）最近获得了175万美元的薪酬。 在过去的近两年中，他试图将银行拉上正轨，薪酬只有区区1美元。

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He always tried to minimize his own faults, while exaggerating those of others.

他总是试图对自己的错误轻描淡写，对别人的错误夸大其词。

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While he waited for an answer, the Spanish naval force tried to break out of Santiago Harbor.

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The man and the boy didn't say anything while he tried to start it.

在他准备开动时,那男人和男孩一言不发。

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He tried to show that his Democratic Party was a national party, while the Republican Party was a party only of the North.

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Kavanaugh holed up in a rented house just above the Sunset Strip and read physics books while he tried to figure out what to do next.

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While he tried to qualify this somewhat at the press conference with the caveat "when they are no longer needed, " he conveyed an impression of U.S. transience and determination to disengage from the Middle East that can only encourage its allies to hedge their bets by giving new weight to relations with Moscow.

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While it seems that he tried to assuage our anger with SyFy and with himself, repeating what we had already heard was probably not the best way to go about it.

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