She was dry, rough, peevish, sharp, captious, almost venomous, all this in memory of her monk, whose widow she was, and who had ruled over her masterfully and bent her to his will

他给她受过不少折磨，她守寡以来，虽然想念亡夫，为人却是无情、粗野、泼辣、锋利、多刺而且几乎有毒。

||1: He grappled masterfully with 11 presidents, and liked them less as he got older. ||2: George Bush junior he detested, a reckless and arrogant man who, on Iraq, overrode the war-declaring powers of Congress while the Senate stood pitifully by. ||3: “In this terrible show of weakness”, Mr Byrd wrote, “the Senate left an indelible stain upon its own escutcheon.” ||4: Some Democrats pleased him little better. ||5: Though most of his 18,500 votes went with his party, he had an old southerner’s conservative streak, besides a West Virginian’s tenderness for coal-mining and steel-making; and party ran second to the Senate, in any case. ||6: Bill Clinton’s bid to seize the pursestrings from Congress in the 1990s with the line-item budget veto was opposed by Mr Byrd in 14 separate one-hour speeches, learned by heart, to slow up debate. ||7: He had filibustered before, the old-fashioned way: in 1964 for a straight 14 hours 13 minutes, to try to kill the Civil Rights Act.

||1:他巧妙地与11任总统周旋，并且随着年长，越来越不喜欢他们。||2:他憎恶小布什，在伊拉克问题上，布什越过了国会的宣战权，而参议院还在可怜地等待。||3:“在这次严重的示弱行为后，”伯德写道，“参议院在自己的盾上留下了不可磨灭的污点。”||4:有些民主党人也讨不得他的欢喜。||5:虽然他的18500票中，党内人士居多，但他有着老南方的保守性格，和西弗吉尼亚人对炼钢和煤矿的温柔；而且在任何情况下，参议院优先于党。||6:九十年代，比尔·克林顿曾企图通过项目预算否决权，从国会那里接管财政，被伯德反对，并以分别的14个一小时演讲，全部脱稿，拖延了议程。||7:他以前也曾以老式的方式阻挠议事：1964年，一次长达14小时13分钟的演讲，试图遏止人权法案。

But Buffett usually plays the odds masterfully and now says risk is grossly overpriced.

但巴菲特对机会的把握通常非常高明，现在他认为，市场风险被严重高估了。

He grappled masterfully with 11 presidents, and liked them less as he got older.

他巧妙地与11任总统周旋，并且随着年长，越来越不喜欢他们。

Beyond dispute is the fact that he has played the politics of the Volvo deal masterfully .

无可争议的一个事实是，在沃尔沃这笔交易上，他的政治关系处理得相当出色。