They were making a joke of my horror! This I thought,and this I think.

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It should remind us of-- at least it reminds me of this joke that you probably told.

这让我想起,一个你们可能听过的笑话

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And somebody as a joke once asked her, "How do you feel living in this village after all these years?"

有个人开玩笑问她,"你在我们村住这么多年觉得怎么样"

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So this was a bit of joke and surprise made them angry about this convergence. Then something even worse happened. People started to talk about using the internet to carry voice conversations for free.

所以这有种开玩笑和惊奇的意味,使他们对聚合很生气，而后更,糟糕的事发生了，人们开始谈论关于,使用互联网免费传输声音会话。

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So, by the way, I don't mean this as a joke, in some sense there's always a third candidate and that comes from the problem we had earlier, because not voting is always an option.

顺便说一句,我不认为某种程度上说,是有三个选举人是一个笑话,这是由于一些由来已久的问题造成的,因为不投票也是一种选择

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