He wore an old double-breasted suit, frayed gray shirt, wide tie, no hat "I left her so long ago I don't remember.

他穿着一件双排扣的旧大衣，一件散口的灰衬衫，和一条宽领带，没有戴帽子，“我很早以前就离开了她。

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I held off for a very long time, but I just got mine a month ago. And now I don't know how I live without it.

我拖了好长时间，一个月前才买的。而且现在我不知道离开它该如何生活。

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Now this was nineteen-eighty-two, quite a long time ago, at a time when people really weren't paying much attention to calories like they are now, so you'd expect the errors to decline as time goes on and there's some evidence of that, but they're errors nonetheless.

这是1982年的实验,很早之前了,当时的人们并不像今天的人们一样,那么关注卡路里,所以你会预计误差会随时间推移而减小,有证据证明了这一点,但误差仍然存在

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