来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：美国革命 第2集 第2集》

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  and I don't know what this means;
  我不确定下面这些引用的含义
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  I don't know enough about him to know--
  毕竟我对他并不是很了解
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  but he kept saying over and over again,
  总之他一遍又一遍地说
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  'I really don't look like a
  "我看上去绝对不像军人
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  military person, nothing about me,'
  一点也不像"
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  so I'm imagining this sort of sloppy, scary guy
  我想象他大概是一个马虎又胆小的人
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  who's wandering around in the back country of South Carolina
  正漫步在南卡罗来纳州的穷乡下
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  and people are saying, 'Colonel,'
  人们见到他就喊"上校"
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  and people usually loved that.
  但通常人们喜欢被这么称呼
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  This made him happy.
  这让他很开心
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  He wrote about it in his diary because he liked it so much;
  他写进日记因为他太爱这个称谓了
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  this made him a happy guy.
  他为此洋洋自得