They tend to finish each other's sentences. "My parents always pushed the idea of 'go to college,go to college,'" "And so this is a start of how we're going to..."

VOA: standard.2010.07.14

This idea of being minority is a definition that was put on me by my American community.

属于少数群体“这个想法,是我在美国时,的标签。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

What I want to point out to you is this part of her letter, the third paragraph here, where she says, "My idea is this."

大家来看,信的第三段,她说，“我认为“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Can't my mind take off from there and push straight ahead to the idea of the perfectly straight, even if I never have encountered it before?

即使我之前没有直接碰到过,难道我的心灵不能借此来推断出,完美的直线是什么样子的吗

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

I've explained my embarrassment about using terms that I really have no absolutely no idea of the meaning of except that I'm told what the meaning of them is in the books that I am reading, which are the same books that you're reading.

我已经解释过了，用这些我完全不知道什么意思的词,真的很尴尬，除非有人告诉我他们是什么意思,就像这本书里说的那样,而我读的这本书，也就是你们现在也在读的。

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