When he enrolled at Seneca Middle School, he was the kid with the hair-trigger temper: always angry, ready to clobber anybody who looked at him the wrong way, muscular, built like a wrestler.

当他进入塞内卡中学就读时，他是个脾气的暴躁的孩子，总是气鼓鼓的，时刻准备与任何人干一仗，他肌肉发达，像一个摔跤手。

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Back then, Clinton's emotional engagement in his presidency could be measured by the intensity of his hair-trigger temper.

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