This was an act of compulsion, and the poet had to be forced to press this lyric out of himself.

这是一个强迫性的行为,诗人被迫绞尽脑汁写出这首诗来。

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It'll allow you to tackle interesting problems I'll have you to write from scratch, but it does mean that this skill here is going to be really valuable.

它会让你处理有趣的问题,我会让你绞尽脑汁的编写，但是这一点意味着,这个技能非常宝贵。

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When it does happen, when the idea comes and you wrestle to place the words that express exactly what it is that you want to say, what it is that the meaning you're wrestling for.

当其真的发生时,你绞尽脑汁,希望写出,能准确表达它的文字，你苦思冥想，究其含义。

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What he concluded was, these pigeons were trying to figure out what makes those pieces of corn come and they started to think well,they had to get the interval between corns right to make this work.

他总结出这些鸽子都在绞尽脑汁,想知道玉米从那来的,它们只能利用,那15秒的间隔去想清楚这个问题

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