Al decided he had to be there for his family during his son's long, hard recovery, a decision I understood and admired.

在儿子艰难漫长的康复期里，艾尔决定和家人待在一起，我很理解并且钦佩他的这个决定。

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I had admired and almost idolized Mencken as a writer long before I got to meet him, about 1930 or so.

在见到他之前，我一直把他当做作家来崇拜，几乎把他当做偶像；大约1930年时，我才见到了他。

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Edelstein: I think that for a long time she felt connected to House and protected him and admired him, and was able to keep it at a professional level, even though I think they always had chemistry.

答：我觉得很长时间她觉得和豪斯之间有某种关系，她保护他喜欢他，就算他们之间有某种化学反应，她也能把这种关系保持在职业范围之内。

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The designer, whom I had long admired, stared in horror and shot me a sympathetic glance.

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Ironically, his nemesis was in Indonesia, a country he had long admired, where crony capitalism and corruption thrive and lack of democracy denies people the right to correct the failings of government.

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After three unspectacular years under coach Pete Carroll, the Patriots hired a Parcells assistant whom Kraft long had admired:Bill Belichick.

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