A teacher may use it when she walks into a room where the students are playing and talking, instead of studying.

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There is too much talking in the room so I am asking you to stop now in respect for your classmates.

教室里太多人说话了,我命令你们马上停下来,为了尊重其他同学。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

And I think it shocked me when I was in that room was that there were all kinds of adults setting there around the table talking about young people, the relationship to technology the relationship to culture the relationship to schooling and to each other.

在现场有一件事令我感到震惊,我们一群成年人来参加听证会,围桌讨论各种关于年轻人的问题，讨论年轻人与技术的关系,与文化的关系,与教育的关系以及年轻人之间的相互关系。

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I started talking about what happened in October 1987 and I looked around the room and I realized that I think the students were three or four years old in 1987 and weren't yet reading The Wall Street Journal.

当我提到1987年10月所发生的事,我环顾整个教室,意识到,1987年在座各位可能只有三四岁,还没有读过那时的《华尔街日报》

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