what would it mean to read this letter out loud in a community, not alone in your dorm room,or just by yourself,in the library?

为什么书信要在人群中大声朗读，而不是在寝室里，图书馆里一人看？

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Am I being unfair? Are your dorm rooms all perfect?

我说对了没,你们寝室很干净吗

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For example, the thermostat in your dorm room.

比如,你卧室里的恒温器

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You've had bull sessions, right, with your high school friends or in your college dorm or what have you.

你们有过自由讨论，是，和高中朋友们，或在大学宿舍，等等。

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Maybe you don't control thermostats in your dorm room, some of you do and some of you don't probably, and maybe it doesn't work very well so it might not be a good example, but imagine a perfect thermostat that you set for a temperature and then the temperature stays the same inside the room no matter what the temperature is outside.

可能你根本就不理卧室里的恒温器,有些人去调它,有些人就置之不理,可能它压根就是坏的,所以这个例子也许并不恰当,但你还是想象一个完美运行的恒温器,你设定温度后房间里的温度就保持不变,不管外面温度是多少

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So I'm guessing now, i won't make you show your hands, because it's probably embarrassing, but what is the state of your dorm rooms, your shared dorm rooms, at the end of the semester or the end of the school year?

我在想,我就不叫你们举手了,这挺尴尬的,到期末或者年末的时候,你们寝室卫生怎么样

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