"Dear Jan, I'm not too good with words." My dad explained he wanted me to be happy and prayed that God would give me wisdom and guidance.

“亲爱的简，我不是太会说话”，我爸解释说，他希望我快乐，祈祷上帝给我智慧和指导。

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Because he asked me a question about the use of a Chinese vocabulary yesterday and I wanted to explain it to him in English before, but unfortunately I found it was too difficult to me.

因为，昨天他问了我一个中文词汇的用法的问题，我之前打算用英文来向他解释，不过不幸的是，我发现这对我来说太难了。

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He wanted me to beef up his training program since it was becoming too easy for him.

他希望我加强训练计划，因为他觉得原计划已变得太容易了。

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My guess is he wanted to tell me before it was too late, before I was too embarrassed to be seen with him and too cool to listen to anything he said.

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"They wanted to send me away because I know too much, " he said, adding that he had "not told the whole truth, just part of it".

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