Studies show that when you ask people questions about themselves, they come away from the conversation with a more favorable impression of you.

研究表明，在谈话中如果你向别人询问有关他们自己的事情，他们会马上对你有好感。

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People don't like to ask questions for fear of appearing ignorant.

人们不喜欢问问题，生怕显得自己无知。

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Every day, people speaking English ask one another questions like these, "Did you say seventy or seventeen?"

讲英语的人每天都会相互问这样的问题：“你是说70还是17？”

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Speaking of personal questions, there is an expression people sometimes use when their children ask, "where do babies come from?"

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So, when they ask you questions about which person should be on the quiz show, people say the more competent person.

因此，当他们问你,觉得谁应该去参加这个智力竞猜节目，你们会说更有能力的人应该去。

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Actually, I had to, a lot of the time, I had to walk down the street and go up to people and ask them questions.

实际上，很多时候，我得走上大街，找人问问题。

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But public opinion looks much different when you ask people specific questions.

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Ask other people questions to find out what they did.

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Because no one else seems to have bothered to ask autistic people these questions, I did.

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