So, what I want to do now is, with that background in mind, I want to take this up and just open up the first few pages.

所以我想要做的事，记着这个背景，我想要打开几页小说。

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And I have actually seen evidence over the years, mercifully, just a small amount of evidence, but there are, in a group like this, always a few students who come in with a really strong background in high school.

这几年我已经见到了实例，令人感激的是，只有小部分人，但在这，像这样的一个小组，总有一些来到我们这的学生,在高中打下了良好的基础。

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But then there is this very explicit discussion of her Catholicism, a little further down: My background and my inclinations are both Catholic, and I think this is very apparent in the book.

然后这里有一段非常明确的,关于她的天主教义的讨论，在往下看一点：,“天主教是我的背景和取向，我想这在书中有很明显的体现。

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