来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：美国革命 第1集 第1集》

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  too fat to last much longer,"
  因为太胖 将不久于世"
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  which is not typical Founder talk.
  没有哪个建国者会这么说话
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  George Washington is not signing his letters that way
  乔治·华盛顿肯定不会在信上这么写
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  but Adams commits that sort of stuff to paper.
  但是亚当斯把这句话写到了信上
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  What that means is not only is he blunt, direct,
  就是说 他不仅率直 坦白
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  and intelligent but he also even gets to be humorous as well.
  聪明 而且他还很具有幽默感
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  So in Adams we have this sort of cantankerous,
  而且亚当斯有时脾气很坏
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  sometimes bemused, more often irritated,
  有时使人不知所措 当然更多的是气愤
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  occasionally self-aware, sometimes really not,
  有时有自知之明 有时却盛气凌人
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  stubborn, book-steeped, event-experiencing,
  顽固 学究 经验丰富
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  action-taking tour guide.
  行动派的领路人
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  He's not going to be there all the time.
  他并不总是这样的