her brothers were eleven and nine: unusually young actors, we might think, to be engaged in such high-flying philosophical debates as these two characters find themselves in.

分别是11岁和9岁，不寻常的小演员，我们可能会想，他们来演这雄心壮志的哲学辩论,是怎么样的。

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He is off to a flying start.

他将大展鸿图。

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She is a PhD candidate in the department of music, just passed her qualifying exam with flying colors, so here she is to demonstrate the bassoon for us, lowest member of the woodwind family.

她是音乐学院的在读博士,刚刚以出色的成绩通过资格考试,她马上要为我们演奏巴松管,木管乐器中声音最低沉的乐器

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And whew! She's flying off the roof with anger, chasing him around the house trying to whip him with a wet towel, so on and so forth: a very dramatic scene again of powerlessness within the family, of being the victim of violence within the family.

噢！在房子里，祖母气急败坏地用湿毛巾追着打他，一会窜这儿，一会窜那儿：,这是理查在家里无能为力，再次成为家庭暴力受害者的又一典型案例。

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