I'm saying that kind of jokingly but I think you are facing a rather if you're out in the job market you are facing a difficult economy

我或许有些开玩笑的说了这些话,但是我认为你们正面临着,如果你们没在找工作,你们就面临着困难的经济状况

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She says, "What? I haven't heard such a thing." "Are you kidding?"

她说，“什么？我从没听过有这种事，你在开玩笑对吗？”

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I am anticipating here, and we'll come back to this in other contexts: but it doesn't say "one thing led to another"; in my facetious reference to history as I have already given it to you.

讲得有点超前了，我们以后谈论别的文章时还会再说：,但是结构主义不会说，一件事引起了另一件事;,就像我之前开玩笑般地指到历史一样。

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