Now the part of the essay just prior to this explains that he gave this little quiz that you see to some college students when he was giving a lecture.

在先前已经解释了这篇文章的一部分,他把你们所看到这个小测试在他的讲座上,给一些大学生做了。

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Going to college and just trying to live his life, you know.

他去上大学，也在努力地过活。

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He could have taken this course from me ten years actually, he didn't go to Yale.

他曾经在10年前来上过我的课,事实上他并不是耶鲁大学的学生。

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