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Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.

  • -- Robert Hall 霍尔

直呼其名——一杯白兰地加水!这是当前名称，但不是合适的名称;要求一杯液体火和蒸馏诅咒。

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Sunrise offered a very beautiful spectacle; the water was quite unruffled, but the motion communicated by the tides was so great that, although there was not a breath of air stirring, the sea heaved slowly with a grand and majestic motion.

日出呈现出非常美丽的景象;海水非常平静，但是潮汐的运动是如此之大，虽然没有一丝空气的搅动，大海还是以一种宏伟而威严的运动缓慢地起伏着。

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People blame me because these water mains break, but I ask you, if the water mains didn't break, would it be my responsibility to fix them then?

人们责怪我是因为这些水管坏了，但是我问你，如果水管没有坏，我有责任修理它们吗?

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No, you can't call your vote in. You have to be there on the floor to vote.

不，你不能投票。你必须到现场投票。

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Circumstances don't always align themselves with human intention.

环境并不总是与人类的意图一致。

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People want incongruous, impossible things.

人们想要不协调的、不可能的事情。

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I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.

我称无花果为无花果，直言不讳。

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