". It is a power play to ignore the questions of others as you effectively say "I do not have to follow social rules with you as I am so much more important.

这是以一种高姿态来忽略别人的提问，就跟你说“因为我比你重要得多，所以没必要和你遵守一样的社会规则”一样有效。

youdao

I do not mind having to work: but if you will send me one little line, and say, 'I am coming soon', I will bide on, Angel - o, so cheerfully!

我不在乎我必须去干活儿：但是你只要写一句话给我寄来，说，“我很快就来了，”我就等着你，安琪尔——啊，我会高高兴兴地等着你的呀！

youdao

Even though you say so，I do not believe it.

即使你这样说，我也不信。

youdao

So, I'm not going to come around and say, did you do your homework?

我不会围着你们说，做作业了没？

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To say it's natural for us to do so is not to say we engage in political life spontaneously and avidly, as you might say spiders spin webs or ants build anthills.

说我们本能地会那么做,并不代表,我们自然且贪婪地,忙于政治生活，就像蜘蛛结网,或蚂蚁筑蚁冢。

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The kind of battle I've been describing to you, a nice flat field, two armies coming at each other, there's not much you can do in the way of trickery, and so you can take a high tone and say, anybody who fights any other way is a no good coward.

我向你们描述的这种战争,土地平坦开阔,两军对垒,没有多大机会使用奸计,所以你能大声地说,谁在战争中使奸就是胆小的懦夫

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If you do not want to undertake it, say so now.

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You, individual you, do not have the power of numbers, say the debt relief opportunists, so you, individual you, cannot accomplish this feat on your own.

FORBES: Don��t fall for debt relief scams!

Now that there is, or so it seems, more you are supposed not to say or do or see, there is more to laugh about when someone pushes the limits.

ECONOMIST: It��s stupidity, stupid