“In general, I think that’s debatable,” said the debutante.

通常，我认为那样说是有争议的。

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A bilingual secretary from Cameroon, she is immaculately dressed and has the practised deportment of a society debutante.

作为一名来自喀麦隆的双语秘书，她打扮完美，有着社会新人那种久经练习的举止。

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But those familiar with the history of debutante balls feel confident that they will not suffer permanent demise.

但是那些熟悉初次社交舞会历史的人坚信这样的舞会不会永远消失。

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Otherwise Russia may risk being the eternal debutante: chattering prettily to all her suitors, but never getting very far with any of them.

ECONOMIST: Russia

Wilson, his son, takes a summer job at a scandal rag, where no amount of ink on his sleeves lives down the day he arrives at work wearing his bowed dancing shoes from debutante balls on the ritzy North Shore.

ECONOMIST: New fiction

And of course, there are the watches, gleaming demurely in their vitrines, exuding the gamine charm of a debutante whose hand you wonder if you dare ask for at the dance.

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