Having worked tirelessly to achieve a position of gentlemanly respectability, neither a divorce nor an open affair was an option.

在不知疲倦地辛勤工作换来了体面的绅士身份后，不管是离婚还是出轨被曝光都不是明智的行为。

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Jewish groups and foreign governments, including America's, remained silent about the affair, as negotiators worked behind the scenes to secure their release.

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He said Lesley had never found out about the affair with a woman he worked with at Queen's University, Belfast.

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California Republican John Doolittle is wrapped up in the Abramoff affair, not only because he worked closely with the lobbyist and took donations from him, but because Abramoff's lobbying firm employed Doolittle's wife (as well as DeLay's).

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