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| 31. | There is this vice in all singes, that if ask to sing among their friends they are never so inclined, but unasked they never leave off. |
| 所有歌手都有这种怪癖：请他们在朋友之间唱的时候，总要托词推托；而人家没请他们唱的时候，可又唱个不停。 |
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| 32. | so, by way of getting out of the scrape, I said, 'Ask Morcerf; he has got the whole history of his beloved Monte Cristo at his fingers' ends;' |
| 由于没有撒谎的本领，我就推托说：去问马尔塞夫吧，基督山的全部身世都源源本本地在他肚子里呢。’ |
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| 33. | Plot twists are a tricky phenomenon. They can provide shock and awe in a carefully-constructed story, or turn out to be a cheap cop-out that evokes groans rather than gasps. |
| 他们提供一个小心构造的故事，有震撼与威慑,或是唤起呻吟并非喘气的推托。 |
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| 34. | Death had purified the air of this glittering den of iniquity, and in any case they could always say, if they needed the excuse, that they had done no more than come to a sale without knowing whose rooms these were. |
| 再说，如果有必要，她们可以推托是为了拍卖才来的，根本不知道这是什么样的人家。 |
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