especially if it's a language that's not like your own, like Russian is very different from English,

尤其是当这门外语和你的母语相差很大，例如，俄罗斯语和英语的差距就很大。

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And that we need to see your work to get full credit, and then especially if you get things wrong, we need to know where it went wrong.

我们需要看到这些才能给你所有分数，尤其是当你出错的时候，我们需要知道是哪里错了。

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It kind of works, but it wobbles, especially if you're hurrying to catch your airplane.

应该能滑动起来，只是有点不稳，尤其当你赶飞机的时候。

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Maybe that's miniscule, but maybe it's going to be fun for you, especially if you have a sort of theatrical bent, or if you like getting up in front of people, or if you're just really, really passionate about a novel that you want everyone to read.

这可能不值一提，但可能对你们来说很有意思，尤其如果你喜欢戏剧，或者喜欢在人们面前表现，或者你只是对这部小说很有热情,希望大家都来读。

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So it's these little differences that you'll very quickly acclimate to but it's these stupid little syntactic details that trips off, especially those less comfortable early on because if you leave out a single character, namely that semicolon on the right hand side, nothing will work.

你会很快适应这些,微小的区别,但我们正是要把这些罗里吧嗦的语法细节,尤其是那些让人非常头大的句子啃下来才行,因为如果我们一旦遗漏掉某个符号，譬如一个分号,从另一方面看来，很有可能什么都工作不了。

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Change often signals danger or opportunity and if we are especially tuned-in to change, it helps us survive ? and it helps us pass along our genes. Okay?

变化通常意味着危险和机遇,如果我们能调整适应变化，我们生存能力更强,并且能传递我们的基因，是不是？

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There's a kind of aspect of value for many of us where we feel that something's especially valuable if it won't endure, if it's fragile, or if it's rare.

对我们许多人来说，有一种价值的方面在于,如果某事物不是持续的，如果是易碎的,或者是稀有的，我们就觉得它特别有价值。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

I haven't figured out -maybe one of you has a suggestion, especially if we can get a -see what college he was here -we did it in his college because he graduated from Yale.

我还没考虑好,也许你们有好的建议,尤其是如果我们可以找到...,查查他原来是哪个学院的,我们在那个学院办,因为他就是耶鲁的毕业生

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It might be very important and insightful, but you're not saying anything especially interesting about death when you say everyone dies alone, if it's also true that everyone eats their lunch alone.

很重要，很有见地，但这样提出每个人都孤独而死时,并未对死亡本身提出什么有趣特别的见地，因为说每个人都孤独地吃中饭也是对的。

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