These tricks might seem basic or corny, but I challenge you to try them and tell me if they worked.

这些小窍门或许看起来很基本或很过时，但我单挑你去尝试他们然后告诉我它们是不是有效。

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I tell them to describe what they're doing and to be straightforward, even to imagine that the patient, who can't see what they're doing (I have a mirror but I don't always use it), might be blind.

我要求他们描述他们所做的事，要直截了当，甚至去设想一下，那个病人看不到你在做的事(我有个镜子，但我不总使用)，他可能是个盲人。

youdao

I hate to be the pessimist, but when I am asked this, I want to tell them that they most likely won't make any money so they might as well ask me to do it for free.

我讨厌悲观的看问题，但是，当我被问到这个问题的时候，我要告诉他们，他们非常有可能会赚不到钱，然后令我拿不到钱。

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And I'm afraid that I might never see them again, and that I'll never be able to tell them that I love them again.

VOA: standard.2009.07.20

"When people contact me and they want to disappear, I tell them: don't burn bridges, you might want to come back, " he says.

BBC: Brenda Heist: How to come back from the dead

They might call los malosos the bad guys to tell them I was there asking questions.

NEWYORKER: Silver or Lead