象你父亲这样的天赋是很少有人及得上的。

Your father was gifted as few men are.

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即使在淡季，除了缴税和给官员及地方长老的灰色支出外，经营者也得上缴固定的费用。

Even in lean times operators have to pay fixed fees, along with taxes and shady incentives to officials and local elders.

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我的一个朋友B又高挑又养眼，开玩笑说她完全配得上NBA球员，但是最后却还是跟一个可以彻夜聊天、不觉无语的男人在一起了，这个男人是一个艺术家，但是身高只及B的肩膀。

My friend B., who is tall and gorgeous, jokes that she could have married an NBA player, but decided to go with the guy she can talk to all night—a graphic artist who comes up to her shoulder.

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You've got to show not only have you understood the ideas that have been put forward in the readings and in the lectures and so forth, but you see how to sort of put them together in the paper in a way that shows you've got some aptitude here.

不只是表现出你们理解了那些概念,那些阅读中的课堂上的及其他的内容，你们还得想办法在论文中把他们组合起来,要显得有点天分。

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