It's sort of late in the day for students who have been through the better part of a semester thinking about the nature of death to argue, maybe, it wasn't such a good idea for you to take this class in the first place.

对学生来说有些太晚了,你们经历了大半个学期,思考着如何讨论死亡的本质，也许，你一开始来上这门课就不是个好主意。

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And you know it's not the necessarily a good idea to do it, you start with "The thing is".

你心里清楚这么做并不一定是个好主意，你就可以用“The thing is”来回答他们。

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