如果听者不专心，这表明你应该缩短故事或改变话题。

If the listener is not paying attention, it's your sign to shorten the story or change direction.

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睡鼠生气地说：“如果你不讲礼貌，你最好自己把故事讲完。”

The Dormouse sulkily remarked, "If you can't be civil, you'd better finish the story for yourself."

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如果你学习和工作累了，苏珊会给你讲有趣的故事，让你笑个不停。

If you're tired from study and work, Susan will tell you funny stories and keep you laughing a lot.

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I think the 2001--if you want to have a story about it the 2001 recession was caused by the end of the stock market boom.

我认为2001年-如果你想听听它的故事,2001年的经济衰退时由于,股票市场繁荣昌盛的结束引发的。

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Of course, they won't be perfect, there's a mixed character of the world of Homer, but still, if you look at the world of Odysseus, his home, what's going on in Ithaca, there are some valuable clues.

当然,并不是完美的答案,荷马史诗里写了一些只言片语,如果你继续阅读《奥德赛》里面的故事,在他的家乡伊萨卡岛发生了什么,你会找到很多有用的线索

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I like to tell that story because it sounds obvious that if you were a goldsmith hundreds of years of ago you would have probably become a banker -it would just be the natural thing to do.

我喜欢讲这个故事,因为这里面的道理很简单,如果你是几百年前的一名金匠,你很可能就会变成一个银行家,这是自然而然的事

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