He wants his novel to be like that living butterfly, but the threat is always that it will be more like the aquamarine. And I want to suggest to you that the aquamarine has an even darker personal significance to him.

他希望他的小说就像蝴蝶那样鲜活，然而它却总是,倾向于像海蓝宝石，我希望你们注意到,海蓝宝石对于他个人而言还有更加阴暗的意义。

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There are accidents, of course, but I think there always will be.

当然，确实会有事故发生，但我认为这是不可避免的。

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Second, well we're not getting to the second one; let's see what-- okay as I mentioned the lecture slides will be posted almost always the same day after the class.

第二点我们暂时不谈,课程的课件会放在网站上,通常是那一天下课后

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I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins because he always treats me as a flower girl and always will," made into a better known movie, My Fair Lady.

对于Higgins教授来说，我永远是一个卖花女,因为他一直待我如卖花女，以后也会”,这出戏剧改编成电影《窈窕淑女》

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