Right? I expect him to tell me the truth about the weather, right, and that's what I'm listening to him for.

对吧？，我希望他告诉我们天气的实况，我听他说话就是这个目的。

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And then after that, it was about a two-year wait, to tell you the truth.

在那之后，老实说，大概还要等上个两年。

想当军人的理由 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

it was the best thing I've done, to tell you the truth.

事实上，这是我做过的最好的一件事了。

想当军人的理由 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Sunshine, meaning the truth, and everyone in the financial industry has to just tell people what they're doing.

阳光就是指事实,每一个在金融行业的人都必须,告诉人们他们在做什么

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Well, Wright himself described that difficulty of writing his autobiography, and these are the terms he used: I found that to tell the truth is the hardest thing on earth, harder than fighting in a war, harder than taking part in a revolution.

莱特自己描述了,自传写作的艰辛，他如是说：,“我发现说真话是世界上最难的事，比参加战争难，比参加革命难，如果尝试写自传。

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Just as Richards says, there's always something kind of archaic or atavistic about poetic thinking. It's not just that - it's not trying to tell the truth, as Sidney said-- "nothing lieth because it never affirmeth."

就像Richards说的，关于诗意的思考，总有些事情过时了,诗歌并非,拒绝陈述事实，正如Sidney说的-,“没有伪造的东西因为一切都不是真的“

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