"If you say,just because I'm using abbreviated forms, as I do,and change my punctuation, as I do,when I'm sending email, that it's affecting the rest of my written language, that,I'm afraid,simply doesn't happen,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.16

I think part of the message here is that... I want to mention just one more, I'm afraid we're out of time But believe it or not, I could talk to you for another 24 hours.

我觉得需要传达的信息是。。。,我想要再次重复一遍，我担心时间不够了,信不信由你，我可以跟你再聊,24个小时。

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It makes no sense to think a computer could have said, I'm afraid.

计算机会说,我害怕,这简直说不通

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