It isn’t handed to you by a kindly old gentleman. 它不會(huì)由一個(gè)年老和善的紳士交到你手上。
In the society of his nephew and niece, and their children, the old Gentleman's days were comfortably spent. 這位老紳士有侄兒、侄媳及其子女作伴,日子過(guò)得倒也舒心。
EXAMPLE: The old gentleman did not remember me at first, but I jogged his memory by mentioning that I had brought a rare and expensive gift to his birthday party last year. 這位老先生一開(kāi)始不記得我,但我提到,去年曾帶了一件珍貴禮物參加他的生日聚會(huì),讓他猛然想起了我。
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Soon afterwards, the sometimes erratic old gentleman was banned from politics for five years and his Welfare party was shut down. ECONOMIST: Turkey
Yet Peter, as this courtly old-school gentleman didn't mind being called, was inherently personal in his communications. FORBES: Middleman for Drucker
But while this whole story certainly sounds plausible, the unidentifiable device in the gentleman's hand could be anything from an old HP iPaq to a five-dollar tip calculator, so please do your duty as responsible readers and begin dropping your wild theories and baseless debunks into the comments below... ENGADGET: Is this the iPhone in the wild?