As much as I might talk on stage twice a week it turns out that it's really by doing and really by diving in and getting your hands dirty that you really take away the course's lessons.

我一周上两次课,就算说得再多，也不如你们亲自动手,通过真正的深入研究,才能学到知识。

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Maybe you jump the head as I told you to do.

不如直接跳到头吧,像我跟你说过的

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you might put it this way.

还不如这样说

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You can imagine somebody who says, "Look, it would be better never to have had the taste at all " than to have the taste and then not be allowed to have the entire meal."

你可以想象会某人说，“尝一口然后被禁止吃完整顿饭,还不如从来就没尝过一口呢“

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