Yet once he had enough paths built to welcome visitors, no one seemed interested in his "bat cave."

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In Franny and Zooey, what did you notice? Tell me what you noticed, at first bat, if any of you have read it.

在《弗兰尼与佐伊》里，你们注意到了什么，告诉我，首先问一下，你们有谁读了它吗。

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They plug it in and make a keystroke error right off the bat.

乘完了,正好砸出击是出了一个按键错误。

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She's going to warm us up and we're going to get up and we're going to get into it here right off the bat in our exploration of duple and triple meter so here we go, Lynda Paul.

她来调动大家的情绪,然后我们站起来,我们将要亲身体会一下,什么是二拍子和三拍子,那开始吧,有请琳达·保罗

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