Why are we unable to talk to a crowd as we talk to a single friend?

为什么我们不能跟一群人讲话,却可以单独同朋友高谈阔论？

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Or, for that matter, where a loved one of mine is unable to make the decision,

或者，在某种情形下，我的某个亲人无法做出这个决定，

对于安乐死的看法 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

She's unable to speak except to hint at a doctrine of virginity the Lady does by the end of the poem get up from her seat.

她无法说话，除了暗示一个贞操的学说,小姐在诗的最后确实从凳子上站起来了。

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He represents them as overheated attempts at literature, as dripping with a kind of excess, romantic excess, as essentially unable to do more than repeat a tradition.

他将这些炙热的情感放到文学里，流露出过度的浪漫，重复传统，无法超越。

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