We've had a great deal to do with it, but of course we still haven't the slightest idea what it is.

我们花了很大的功夫来接解决这个问题，但我们仍然一点都不知道语言是什么。

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And what's interesting about it, and what indicates its importance to Buddy, is that Bessie gets on about him getting a phone ; where he's teaching in upstate New York; he's teaching writing as a visiting writer at a college in upstate New York. And Bessie, his mother, keeps saying, "Well, why won't you get a phone, Buddy?

有意思的是，这对巴蒂很重要，因为，贝西给他打了一个电话,在他在纽约北部教书的地方;,他教写作，作为访问学者在,纽约北部的一所大学里，贝西，他的妈妈，说，好了，为什么你不接电话？

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