Others who want to graduate in three years must pay for the same education as four-year students, but in a shorter period of time.

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In the same way that being a child is a phase you can go through for a period of time and then cease to be.

就像是作为儿童存在一样也是一个阶段,会经历一段时间而后停止。

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At the same time, I do mean to give you some sense of the period in which they're writing, some sense of modernism as a field, as one of the richest fields in English language writing.

同时，我也会给你们提供一些背景知识,来了解作者创作的年代，以及现代主义的思想领域，就其作为英语文学创作最丰富的领域之一而言。

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