Now a five-page paper is very different from an eight-page paper if you're actually thinking about the words you choose and how you write it.

一篇五页的论文,如果你真正考究用词和写法,和一篇八页的论文是截然不同的。

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The piece of paper you have here is 250 names chosen randomly from a Manhattan phone book.

你们手上的那张纸有250个名字,都是从曼哈顿电话薄里随机挑出来的。

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Even though,if you've done the reading of the Edwards paper that I assigned, you have a series of quotes from Edwards in which people say things like, they die alone.

即便如此，如果你们已经看过了Edwards的论文，可以在他的书中摘取多段引文，里面会说，他们都将孤独而死。

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