He stood before his father with cap in hand.

他恭恭敬敬地站在父亲面前。

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He stood before his father with cap in hand.

恭恭敬敬地站在父亲面前。

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He stood a second facing the front door of the Dalton home, the same door before which he had stood so humbly with his cap in his hand a little less than a week ago.

他立定一秒钟，面向着道尔顿家大门，他在不到一星期前也曾在这同一扇门前站过，手里拿着帽子，样子那么卑躬屈节。

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Burris marched in with his cap gun in one hand and a Popsicle in the other, wearing his short pants and nothing else, looking like a little stick man.

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"What I'm not in the habit of doing, and I'm not going to do, is go around cap in hand pleading with players to play for their country, " Toshack said.

BBC: Wales manager John Toshack

There are arguments for this, but going cap in hand does not lie easily with throwing weight about.

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