There is no give and take, as the controller is uncomfortable and bossy if you want to make a choice about something.

那是不容商量的，因为如果你想对某件事做出选择，控制狂会不安且专横。

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As a matter of fact, your gift would be appreciated all the more if you make it yourself.

事实上，如果你的礼物是自己亲手做的，会让人更加感激。

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David made a gesture, spreading out his hands as if he were showing that he had no explanation to make.

大卫做了个手势，双手一摊，似乎表示他没有什么可解释的。

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Daphne is supposed to be seen as one of those moms who mean well even if they make their kids crazy.

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But it's almost as if Milton were tempted now to make himself go even further back, to write a humble ode that he could place at the feet of the Creator, the Creator at the moment of the actual creation of the entire universe.

但弥尔顿那时好像,要把自己放回比那还要早的年代，来写一篇谦逊的颂歌安放在造物主的脚下，那时的造物主实际就是创造天地万物的神。

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But there's an important and, I think, a very real sense in which Milton wanted to make it seem as if the Nativity Ode were the first poem that he had written.

但我有种非常强烈的感觉,弥尔顿好像还是想让人觉得,《圣诞清晨歌》才是他的第一首诗。

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That's a momentous paradigm shift, but we haven't really changed the way we make music videos we make them as if they're still for MTV.

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One such was the hurried build-up, made even more hurried by Tony Blair's desire, until as late as possible, to make it look as if peace might still break out.

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It still seemed as if we would make our way out of that crowd, as if in just a moment we would be together.

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