我伯父本杰明也赞成我念书，并且提议把他全部说教的速记本赠送给我(我想大概是作为开业的资本罢)，如果我肯学习他的速记术的话。

My uncle Benjamin, too, approved of it, and proposed to give me all his short-hand volumes of sermons, I suppose as a stock to set up with, if I would learn his character.

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我伯父本杰明也赞成我念书，并且提议把他全部说教的速记本赠送给我(我想大概是作为开业的资本罢)，如果我肯学习他的速记术的话。

My uncle Benjamin, too, approved of it, and proposed to give me all his short-hand volumes of sermons, I suppose as a stock to set up with, if I would learn his character.

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