And so we sort of sit back from the situation and say, "Look, hey, you're a really nice guy, and we like you and your family. And you're fun to be with and we like your jokes, but you didn't get the job done."

我们得保持客观，说，你很不错，我们喜欢你和你的家庭,你很幽默，我们很喜欢你讲的笑话，但是你并没有完成任务“

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And so I joked, badly, I'll agree, at the end of last lecture, that we can just stop now, go straight to the final exam, because this is all you need to know.

所以我在上次演讲快结束时说了个拙劣的笑话，我会同意我们可以到此为止,直接进行期末考试，因为这些是你们需要知道的所有内容。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Despite making a bad joke about it we're going to do the same thing here.

尽管关于流程图我说了个很糟糕的笑话,我们还是要去画流程图。

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