And if you come and ask a question that you could have easily answered by doing the reading, coming to lecture, or using Google, they're going to have less patience.

所以如果你过来仅仅是问一个,你能很轻松的,通过阅读、上课、或者，在谷歌上搜索就能得到答案的问题，他们会失去耐心的。

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So can be changed slightly, depending on tense, past, present or future as well as whether or not you want to ask a question.

因此这个句型要根据不同的时态，如过去时、现在时和将来时，作出一点调整；另外也会根据是否是问句而略有不同。

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So no harm is done, once we've clarified the question that we're trying to ask, if we summarize that question in a bit of a jargon or slogan.

其实没什么的,一但我们证实了我们,试图想要解决的问题,如果把这个问题用术语或行话简化

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It's one way you could ask your friend whether or not you could pose a question.

这是一种询问你的朋友你是否可以提出一个问题的方式。

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or you can turn it into a question, and ask "Is there" to ask the existence of something.

当然你也可以把它变成一个问句，用“Is there”来询问某些事物是否存在。

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Or suppose we ask the question in a slightly different way.

或者再换一种稍微不同的方式问

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