人们亲昵地称威廉为比利。

William was affectionately known as Billy.

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当我向他提出这个问题时，他幽默地称自己是个麻烦制造者。

When I pointed this out to him, he suggested, in good humor, that I was a troublemaker.

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迈可愤怒地称，林肯与他的兄弟情比他们之间的母子情更真。

Michael rages that Linc was more of a brother to him than Christina was ever a mother.

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Yeats, in "Adam's Curse," regrets that the beautiful is something to be labored for and he wants to conceal that labor.

他在亚当的诅咒中后悔地称,这种美值得为之劳累,他想隐藏这种劳累。

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Machiavelli's new world, his new modes and orders, will require, clearly, a displacement of the earlier one, of the previous one.

马奇亚维利的全新世界，他所称的新模式与秩序将很明显地，会取代传统制约，前朝的制约。

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Two-thirds of the white South remained in those classes we've come to call the yeoman farmers, the poor whites, or the sand hill farmers, as they were sometimes called.

三分之二的白人家庭属于这个阶级,我们称他们是约曼农民,贫穷的白人,或者没有地的农民

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