So if I take away the quotation marks, all I have is the word with no indication that it's a concept.

所以如果我拿掉引号，剩下的就只是这个词而不指示一个概念了。

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when I was not behaving exactly as my teacher would have liked,

当我没有完全地按老师的指示做，

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I can give you the form and ask you to rate how attractive you think I am and I can give you the same instruction with a crucial difference "Please wait here.

我给你们这张表格,对我的魅力指数打分,同样的指示，但有一点重要的差别,我对你们说“请在这儿稍等片刻。

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But now I've had my fill of both and I can spend my later years, the twilight of my life, turning to the things about the gods, " performing sacrifices commanded by the gods."

但现在我已两者尽得,我可以在剩下的光阴，我的残年，转向服伺众神，执行众神所指示的祭典“

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