This is perfect because if it was to someone else you can feign interest as they tell you all about her with out losing face, but if it was to you, they must come clean.

这一招非常不错，因为如果是寄给别人，你可以边听边表现出感兴趣，同时不用担心因为不是你而丢面子；如果是你，就是你，他们肯定就得和盘托出了。

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As you can tell even from this brief discussion, nesting is complex, confusing, and fraught with danger, so it is usually best to avoid it whenever possible.

如您从此简要讨论中看到的，嵌套通常是复杂、混乱，且危险的，所以通常最好尽可能避免它。

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Modern dictionary-makers are the first to explain that their job is to register the language as it is used, not to tell people how they must use it.

现代字典的编纂人的职业只是记录人们使用的语言，而不是告诉人们必须怎么使用语言。

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Montclin did not move. "You know as well as I do that it is no use to tell Athnaise anything,"

VOA: special.2009.06.27

There's never been any agreement, so far as I can tell, as to who it is we're supposed to be imagining the outside observer to be, and there are all sorts of conjectures.

这里的X到底是谁，就我所知，并没有定论,这个置身于外的观察者的身份仍然不明，关于这点又充满了各种各样的推测。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

As histories tell it,he looked and looked at the first photograph, and said: "This is one for all time."

VOA: special.2010.05.31

"I think they are wise to tell it as it is, " he said.

BBC: UFF rejects arms call

I'll just tell it as it is.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Nobody's Baby'

What these elections cannot tell us is whether politics is as it has been for the last three decades since the 80s - where governments can bounce back after mid-term defeats - or whether we'll soon see a return to the politics of the 70s - of one-term governments thrown out of office.

BBC: Elections - Reading the runes