"I kept hoisting mine up, but when you've got Christmas hams like mine,mate, the other boys tended to say 'pull your skirt back down again.' That's when you know what the tone of the movie is.

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Now, scholars are ingenious in their ability to skirt absolutely the central conundrum of Providence that this poem raises ; and which it raises so insistently and really refuses to let go of; but that doesn't mean that the problem just goes away.

学者们非常精明的,在这首诗里体现出的天意的中心问题上打擦边球,这个观点如此坚决我们无法弃之不管;,但那并不意味着问题就这样解决了。

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and you have to have the right pants and skirt and things like that, a tie.

而且你必须穿对了裤子裙子那一类东西，还有领带。

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