And I knowed I could pray now. But I didn't do it straight off, but laid the paper down and set there thinking -- thinking how good it was all this happened so, and how near I come to being lost and going to hell.

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The problems are set up so that, if you start down the right path, it should be pretty straight-forward to work it through If you start down a plausible but incorrect path, you can sometimes find yourself stuck in the weeds somewhere, and we want to bring you back in.

问题提出了，如果你从，一开始就走正确的道路，解决的途径,就一目了然了,如果你走上一条貌似正确但实际错误的道路，你会在某时某刻,发现自己陷入泥沼，于是我们就会把你拉回来。

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I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree, And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again.

我真想去爬白桦树，沿着雪白的树干，爬上乌黑的树枝，爬向那天心，直到树身再支撑不住，树梢碰着地，把我放下来。

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These are going to be fairly common-sense definitions, but they're important, and when you get to a problem set, really nailing down what the system is, not more, nor less, in terms of the amount of stuff, that's part of the system, it's going to be often very crucial.

这些是,很常识性的定义，但是很重要，当你要解决问题时，务必要搞清楚系统是什么，它包含多少物质，不能多也不能少，这往往,是非常重要的。

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