你计划请她吃晚餐，却一个劲儿地问她所定的时间和地点对她是否合适，于是你就给她留下了这样一个印象：你不知道如何去处理好一段关系。

When you plan to take her out to dinner, but keep asking her whether the time and place is okay for her, then you're giving her the impression that you don't know how to handle a relationship.

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即便是这样，格雷西还是没能完全如愿，她拒绝吃那个奢华的生日蛋糕，因为上面小鸟的颜色是紫色的，而非蓝色。

But even this was not enough to impress young Gracie, who rejected her lavish birthday cake because the bird design was purple, not blue.

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我想着让她享受一晚，吃顿好饭，这样我再跟她说“我们其实彼此并不合适”，会比较容易些说出口。

I thought I would offer Paula a good time, an expensive meal, the whole business, and later I could more easily say, "We're not really suited to each other."

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