I know that may seem like a surprising thing to say when I've just sort of gone on my little gleeful amount about how I'm going to fail all of you, but it's worth my saying you guys are so smart.

我知道这说起来很奇怪,当我有些幸灾乐祸的说,关于我怎么让你们全部不合格，但是这值得我说你们聪明非常。

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Like if you're one of the people who hasn't been writing down things as you go along, and then you enter things at the end of the day, and I suspect that's the majority of you, you may have entered things into your record and then later gone and said, oh I forgot, I had this thing!

比如你是这些人之一,没有及时记下自己做的事情,在一天结束时你要提交信息了,我猜你们中的大部分,输入自己的信息,之后可能会发现,我忘了,还有这个

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