It's definitely an opportunity for help, but particularly, as an opportunity to work with someone for just a few moments to help get you unstuck or to get you past some stumbling block that, otherwise, if you struggled with on your own, you might sink or waste even multiple hours on just something that you're not seeing.

这是一个寻求帮助的机会，特别是，作为一个与某人一起工作的机会,他们能帮助你解决问题,或帮助你越过绊脚石，否则，如果你自己单独奋斗，你可能,浪费很多时间在,你不了解的东西上。

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So in other words, if thankful is still false at this point, it means this condition did not work out very well, and so I'm going to do this block of code again.

换句话说，如果thankful在这时候还是false值，这表示这个条件没有实现地很好，所以我将再次去处理这段代码。

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