I've explained my embarrassment about using terms that I really have no absolutely no idea of the meaning of except that I'm told what the meaning of them is in the books that I am reading, which are the same books that you're reading.

我已经解释过了，用这些我完全不知道什么意思的词,真的很尴尬，除非有人告诉我他们是什么意思,就像这本书里说的那样,而我读的这本书，也就是你们现在也在读的。

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This particular copy was pretty dog-eared; As a matter of fact, it was a paperback copy and I think it was in about eight or ten different pieces and the people that threw this party remembered that, so they gave me it at this celebration.

我用过的那本已经翻烂了,实际上,那是本平装版,我想书脊也不知断了八处还是十处,组织派对的人还记得,在派对上把这本书给了我作纪念

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