But he was not taken seriously as a candidate.

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You can see I'm not too friendly to that interpretation, but it is being taken very, very seriously.

我对这种启示不是很认可,但是人们都非常认真对待

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The precision of that,of course, is not to be taken seriously, but it gives you a general idea of when we are talking about.

当然,这个时间的精确度,并没有经过严格考证,但是它使我们对这件事的时间有个大体的概念

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