I badly needed some money, so I had to ask my friend for help.

我急需钱，所以我不得不向朋友求助。

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Here I would like to ask my friend, how can I do, how to save themselves?

在这里，我想请问我的朋友，我可以怎样做，怎样自救？

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Hard times offer the opportunity to ask hard questions, and one of them is the one my friend asked, staring at sweaters and shoes: why did we buy all this stuff?

人们越是在艰难的时期，越是会问到严酷的问题，其中一个就是我那个朋友问到的，她盯着那些毛衣和鞋子问：我们为何要买这些东西？卧室里真的需要超薄液晶屏电视机吗？

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' my mother would ask after denying me permission to sleep over at a friend's house.

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