I was just tired and had nothing else to do.

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And I, like hopefully some of you in this room, discovered that chemistry was actually a lot of fun, and that the chemistry I got in college was pretty much nothing like the chemistry I had seen in high school.

这不是因为喜欢，而是被强迫的，但我希望在座的各位中,有人能发现化学的乐趣,大学学的化学课程和高中完全不一样。

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I felt we had nothing in common but "motley," our Irishness.

我和他们除了都是小丑“,都是爱尔兰人之外没什么区别。

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