如果有人问我他是否该当作家，我要重复上研究生时得到的建议：不，先试着做点别的，写作太辛苦了。

If someone asks me if they should become a writer, I repeat the advice I received in graduate school: No. Try anything else first. Writing is too hard.

youdao

别太当真了，最好是先通过酒保，征得她们同意，如果她们不接受也别强求。

Do it through the bartender with the girl's permission. And don't insist if she doesn't want it.

youdao

我太惊讶了，所以先花了几分钟整理了一下思绪才告诉她剩下的故事。

I was in shock and it took me a few minutes to organize my thoughts before I could tell her the rest.

youdao

I'm not quite sure,because we have to turn to a metaphysical question that we've touched upon before,namely,can souls split?

我不太确定，因为要先提出一个以前说过的,形而上学的问题，就是，灵魂可以分裂么？

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I've got to go to the first place, figure out how far over to skip, go to the next place, figure out how far over to skip, eventually I'll be out the door.

需要多长时间？,这太离谱了，因为我需要先去第一个元素,计算出下一个元素。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

OK? And in fact, if you look at the code up here, and it's on your handout, the very first one, x 1, right here- if I could ask you to look at it-- is a piece of code to do it. And I'm less interested in the code than how we're going to analyze it, but let's look at it for a second.

实际上，如果你看看,你们课堂发的材料上面的代码，第一页上的，就是那-,大家请看看实现的这一部分代码,我不太关心,我们会怎么解释这个代码,首先让我们先看看。

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