So those were really good three explicate purposes that we identified at the beginning.

这就是,我们开始,确立的三个表层目标。

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I want to start my lecture today looking back to that handout I gave you -but didn't give you a discussion of--a couple of days ago, ] from that essay Good Readers and Good Writers that I quoted at the very beginning of class this term.

今天我将用几天前发给你们的,却没有进行讨论的资料，开始我们的课程，从那篇叫做“好的作家和好的读者“的文章开始,我曾在本学期课程的最开始引用过它。

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Some of you, unfortunately, won't do very good jobs at the beginning... and my TAs, I'll encourage them to be prepared to give Ds.

其中有些人，很遗憾，在开始时表现不会很好。,我会鼓励我的助教们做好给D的准备。

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