他只是说，他对他的邻居说了这件事，而邻居对他说这是一笔糟糕的交易，他支付的价格太高了。

All he said was that he talked to his neighbor, and his neighbor told him it was a bad deal. He was paying too much.

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同时他对他说：“我的邻居是谁？”

And he said unto him, "Who is my neighbor?"

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

作者听到了他父亲对一个邻居说的话。

The writer heard what his father said to one neighbor.

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