He speaks deprecatingly of his father as a lonely man.

他不以为然地说到他父亲是一个孤独的人。

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"It's just a modest little daub" he said self-deprecatingly. "It only took me an afternoon to paint. "

只是随便乱画的，他谦虚地说，“我只画了一个下午。”

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Then his British pridespoke, deprecatingly, as it always speaks. "We could never do anythinglike this in London, don't you know.

然后他的英国骄傲又来了，带着一贯的不以为然态度，“你知道吗，在伦敦绝对做不到这样，一个英国人的住宅就是他的城堡，诸如此类的事情等等。

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He had a wonderfully dry wit and didn't hesitate to apply it self-deprecatingly.

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Well he was a relatively senior businessman in his earlier incarnation (that said, he self-deprecatingly and amusingly pointed out that he was the only innumerate treasurer of one of the UK's biggest companies, and his employer, Enterprise Oil, paid someone to check all his numbers).

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