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A：Alice, your father is amazing. He’s 90 years old and he lives alone in that big house.艾丽斯，你的爸爸可真行! 他九十岁了，还一个人住那么大的房子。
B：I know. He doesn’t like to ask anyone for help. My dad insists on paying his own bills and taking care of himself!我知道，他不喜欢求助任何人。我爸爸坚持自己支付帐单，自己照顾自己!
A：That sounds like my Grandmother. She was always stubbornly independent.那听起来倒像我奶奶。她总是极其自立。
B：It seems that folks like my father and your grandmother are determined to be on their own.好像像我爸爸和你奶奶那样的人注定是要自力更生的。
A：They see their independence as a kind of character strength.他们把他们的独立性看作是一种性格坚强。
B：Sometimes they are too independent.有时候他们也太独立了。
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