I tried that out on my parents.Not even close. Guys, I'm going to the prom with Eric.

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So, one of the things I've tried to claim in describing Genesis 1 is That in this story evil is represented not as a physical reality.

我在描述《创世纪》第一章中试图做的是,在这个故事中，邪恶并不是一种实体的存在。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

What I tried to do was to encourage the children not only to learn about a new culture, the Japanese Culture, from this Star Festival, but to also start thinking about what their own background was.

我所做的就是鼓励孩子们,不仅仅是通过七夕节来，了解全新的日本文化，而更要开始思考,自身的文化背景。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

"In Europe and also here increasingly in the U.S., they are talking as if we had basically lost it and the main question was talking to the Taliban and settling to some degree on their terms, whereas we still have not tried - and I think it would be worth trying for a year, at least,or two - to address the causes as to why the Taliban has become relatively popular, or at least relatively accepted,"

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