So when I was a senior, I had marginally considered this is an option.

大四时，我勉强认为这是个机会。

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I barely know how to use a cell phone let alone a computer, you know,

我勉强会用手机，更不要说电脑了，你知道，

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If it's a stretch for you, I still recommend that you do it.

如果你觉得很勉强，我仍建议你一起来。

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And the schools play a major role in this and thus all these kids who grew up speaking patois or Provencal or Gascon-- I forgot Gascon, around Bordeaux, they can sing the Marseillaise in acceptable French as they march off to be slaughtered.

在这里面学校扮演了主要角色,所以这些说着,方言或者普罗旺斯语或者加斯科涅语的孩子们,我把加斯科涅语忘了,在波尔多附近,他们操着勉强能接受的法语唱着马赛曲,上前线等待被屠杀

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