"It's just a modest little daub" he said self-deprecatingly. "It only took me an afternoon to paint. "

只是随便乱画的，他谦虚地说，“我只画了一个下午。”

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He smiled deprecatingly. "It's just that I have a problem with boats. A kind of phobia. I wouldn't get into one of those rubber dinghies if my life depended on it."

他不好意思地笑道：“这就是我的问题所在，对船有恐怖症，如果我的生命只能依靠那样的小皮艇，我根本没办法克服自己的恐惧让自己进去。”

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He had a wonderfully dry wit and didn't hesitate to apply it self-deprecatingly.

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Well he was a relatively senior businessman in his earlier incarnation (that said, he self-deprecatingly and amusingly pointed out that he was the only innumerate treasurer of one of the UK's biggest companies, and his employer, Enterprise Oil, paid someone to check all his numbers).

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