"I would like to see the mountains," I said, and then my dream began to form along with the sentence, "I might,I want to be a doctor."

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We are, in other words, attempting to grasp it in a sentence that might read something like, "What the author means to say is--" Right?

换言之，我们在尝试着在这样一句话中掌握它，作者想说的是--，是吧？

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I'm willing to bet that some of you had noted in your reading last night, or whenever you did your reading, perhaps you actually underlined the sentence that we've just looked like.

我打赌你们中的一些人已经在昨晚或是别的时候，的阅读中注意到，也许你们已经划出了我们刚刚看到的句子。

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