How easy would it be to write if you knew your first draft would stink?

如果你知道你的初稿会很烂，那么写作会有多容易呢？

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"If you knew time as well as I do," said the Hatter, "you wouldn't talk about wasting it."

“如果你也像我一样懂得时间，”帽商说，“你就不会说浪费时间了。”

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"If you knew how great is a mother's love," Wendy told them triumphantly, "you would have no fear."

“如果你们知道母爱是多么伟大，”温迪得意洋洋地告诉他们说，“你们就不会害怕了。”

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"When I was sleeping I heard a knock at my door, and I opened my door and two men were there and gave me a pouch and said, 'A gift for you.'" The prosecutor asked Campbell if she knew who the gift was from.

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If you knew only the third derivative of the function, you can have something quadratic in t without changing the outcome.

如果方程里有三阶导数,你就可以引入一个二次项,但是结果却不会变

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If you knew you had a year left or two years left, ? what would you do with that time?

如果你知道自己还剩一年或者两年，这段时间你会怎么利用？

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The difference being that, even if you knew somebody, you couldn't get a room in Shreveport.

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Your coffee wouldn't taste right if you knew it was harvested by child labor.

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You probably wouldn't be yelling if you knew of a better way to gain their compliance.

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