I needed about an half hour ahead start on him in the office in order to be sufficiently prepared to visit with him which I did every morning shortly after he arrived.

我需要在他之前,半个小时前就开始工作,为的是做好充分准备,跟他谈话,我每天早上,他到达办公室后都要跟他谈。

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I feel like I need to prepare myself for a lot of negative criticism for it

我觉得我得做好接受负面批评的准备，

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Some of you, unfortunately, won't do very good jobs at the beginning... and my TAs, I'll encourage them to be prepared to give Ds.

其中有些人，很遗憾，在开始时表现不会很好。,我会鼓励我的助教们做好给D的准备。

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