"As a mother my heart went out to all of them. I cannot imagine what it would feel like to know that your child was in prison, for now 100 days, with very little contact between you and them.

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I don't know if you know how a spark plug works, but for the electrical current to fly into operation in a spark plug, the two points of contact have to be gapped.

我不知道你们是否知道,火花塞是怎样工作的，在电流通入火花塞中使它运转之前，两个接触点之间需要有空隙。

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They would get lesions on their hands, for example, the part of their body that was really in close contact with the cows.

比如,在与奶牛亲密接触的身体部位,也就是手上 也许会出斑

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I think it's in part that, suffering from lupus, she was very much confined to her house in Georgia, and the letter writing, this kind of correspondence, was certainly a way for her to keep in contact with the world of readers and other writers and friends.

我想这多少与她，受病痛的折磨有关，受制于病情，她只能呆在,乔治亚州的家里，足不出户，所以写信，必然是她和读者、,其他作家和朋友联系的方式。

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If these are the conditions for contact, to what extent are they met in the university setting between, say blacks and whites, people from the American South versus people from the American North, people from other countries versus people from the United States?

如果大学环境里有这些接触的条件，有多少是属于促成因素的？,例如在黑人和白人之间，来自美国南方的人,和来自美国北方的人之间，外国的学生,和美国的学生之间？

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