You just want to get the overall idea of what is being said so that you're able to respond. Ok?

你只是想了解人们所说的话的大意，那样你就可以做出回答了，对吧？

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This should all sound incredibly familiar, like I'm just repeating myself in terms of photoelectric effect, because essentially that's what I'm doing, and that's one reason we spent so much time and did so many problem-set problems on the photoelectric effect.

这应该听起来极其熟悉，就像我在重复自己在讲光电效应时所说的话，因为基本上我正是在这样做，这也是我们在光电效应这个问题上,花这么多时间,做这么多习题的原因之一。

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The iniquity of his lips must be burned off by a live angelic coal, that the sinfulness of his lips we could think of it as the sinfulness of his voice, his poetic voice -- will have to be purged.

他邪恶的嘴唇必定会被天国燃烧的煤块烧掉，他的嘴唇的罪孽,我们可以认为是他所说的话的罪孽，他的诗句必将被净化。

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All of this the New Criticism had a great deal to do with-- and when I talk next time about the way in which it's been vilified for the last forty or fifty years, naturally I will have this in the back of my mind.

这些都跟新批评派有关-,等我下次再说到这个,在四五十年前饱受诋毁的文学鉴赏方式的时候，我还会想起今天所说的话。

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It will just as likely be misunderstood if you read it three, four, five, or ten times, if you are not attentive to what he's saying.

仍可能误解,但就算是你读了三遍，四遍，五遍或十遍，如果你没有仔细分辨他所说的话。

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Let's just suppose we understand that clause to be implied in what I'm saying.

我们假设,那句话蕴含在我所说的话中。

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As she speaks to him, her words find favor, His heart enlightened, he yearns for a friend.

神妓所说的话让Enkidu顿生好感，开始明理，寻找一个可以做伴的人。

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So, keep that in mind if you're not over-the-top excited about the prospects of some of your research.

对你们的项目不是十分激动的话,你们可以记住我刚才所说的话。

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in some ways, one has to admit also there maybe a grain, if not more than a grain of truth in what he seems to be saying.

我们多么不喜欢他，但必需承认,他可能有点儿道理，但就那么点儿,关于他所说的话。

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