or sorry, you did choose to show up today, we'll understand, but please also understand that the TAs won't have a lot of patience with you if you're asking a question about something that was either covered in the readings, or covered in the lecture and is pretty straight forward. All right?

你确实决定了来上课，我们会理解你的，但是请明白,当你问了一个,既在阅读材料里,也在课堂上讲过的浅显问题时，助教们可没有太多耐心,接待你？

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When you ask "Is there," you're asking about the existence of something.

当你问“Is there”的时候，你在询问关于某事存在的情况。

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Also, I ask the teaching assistants to give me little capsule descriptions of you so that if in ten years, or 20 years from now, I get a call from a reporter asking about this illustrious person who was once my student, I can have something to prod my memory.

我还要求助教做一个,你们每人的简要描述给我,这样的话,如果在10年20年后,有个记者打电话给我,向我询问一位曾经是我的学生,而现在已经声名显著的人时,也好有些资料帮我想起来

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