I've tipped you a wink or signalled to you on the sly many times, but before you took the hint others had already noticed.

我多次向你使眼色，又给你递暗号，别人都明白了，你却没有反应。

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Fried mozzarella will be the appetizer to a roast pork sandwich that is a sly take on char siu bao, a food close to Mr. Torrisi’s heart.

炸干酪只是开胃菜，而主菜是一道烤猪肉三明治，三明治暗中巧妙借鉴了托里西的心水食物——叉烧包。

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An old Fox, crafty and sly, had a den in the rocks, on a hill near her house.

在她家不远处的小山上住着一只狡猾的老狐狸。

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Since I have learned the hard way that a diet Coke gulped on the sly the final day of your stay will almost surely show up on your bill, I have always wondered about the robe scenario.

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Playing music from his big-band tribute to Nat King Cole's Spanish-language albums, saxophonist David Murray's Cuban Ensemble occupied the same space as Mr. Bernstein and his Millennial Territory Orchestra, which drew from its new album, a take on the music of Sly Stone.

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Mr. Bernstein's group, which featured John Medeski on the Hammond B-3, turned (Le) Poisson Rouge into a dance club on Friday with his Sly interpretations, and the Bernie Worrell Orchestra did the same a night later.

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