You could tell your colleague instead of asking him directly which might be a little inappropriate,

如果不想过于直接地问他，因为这可能有点不合适，你可以这样问你的同事，

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I'm asking you if somebody wrote apparently Shakespeare's plays for him; it's one of the rumors, right?

我想问你,有没有人替写莎士比亚写剧本,这只是个传闻,对吧

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