(1)In 1981, President Jimmy Carter made a speech at a university in Japan
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(2)He made a joke at the beginning of his speech, but the translator’s words were very short, even though the joke was quite long
(3)Nevertheless, the audience was full of laughter
(4)After the speech, the president called in an interpreter to ask how he translated his jokes so briefly
(5)The interpreter, who hesitated for a long time, revealed what he translated
(6)It’s an interesting thing that President Carter just found hard to translate into Japanese
(7)That’s what I said You have to laugh if you don’t want to embarrass him
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