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“At your age, in spite of a distinct lack of motivation at university, where I had spent far too long in the coffee bar writing stories and far too little time at”

在你这个年纪，尽管我在大学里缺乏动力，在咖啡吧写故事的时间远多于上课时间，

“population and sheikh zayed did that in a fairly good way and in spite of falling oil prices he brought this country up here so we got a much more mainstream appearance”

谢赫·扎耶德在这方面做得相当不错，尽管油价下跌，他还是将这个国家带到了更高水平，使其呈现出更主流的外观。