But why can't you pretend to eat it and put on the airs?

女儿一语惊人：“那你就不能假装吃一下吗？”

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IN THIS ARTICLE: After winning the Nobel prize, Zhu Diwen did not put on the airs of a great scientist, but was full of smiles, and engaged in humorous and witty conversation.

本文简介：得诺贝尔奖后的朱棣文，没有大科学家的架子，有的是亲切的笑容、幽默风趣的谈吐。

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He always put on AIRS with me, as if he was the boss.

他总是对我摆架子，就好像他是老板一样。

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Hu is seen as a "Zhou Enlai II" - a kind man who doesn't put on airs, the antithesis of a pompous bureaucrat.

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At about the time the American sturgeon catch was starting to tap out, fish eggs from the Caspian Sea were beginning to put on their cosmopolitan French airs.

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