"In England,like in the United States, bilingualism is seen as something special and unique and something to be commented on and perhaps work towards, whereas in many other parts of the world being bilingual is just seen as a natural part of life."

VOA: special.2011.03.09

But equally the case, that the views that I'll be developing in the lectures are, although not necessarily unique to me, aren't all laid out in the readings.

还有这种情况，我在讲座中展开讨论的观点，尽管对我而言并不一定珍奇，在书中也无法全部找到。

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What it means is I don't want to take unique time that we could be discussing other things in class by covering things that you could have read already.

这只说明我不想在课上单独花时间,来讲你们可能已经看过的东西,这个时间可以用来讨论其他内容

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