I wanted to tell you about early because I'm going to ask you to do something for three days and then write about that.

我提早通知大家是因为,我会让你们用三天的时间来做这个

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but they were saying the funds, they were low on funds, so they were trying to close it much earlier,

但公园的资金却出现了短缺，所以他们试着要提早关门。

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To help you know sort of ahead of time quickly what those views are, I want to start by describing a set of views that many of you probably believe.

让你们稍微提早点儿知道,那些观点是什么，我想要从描述它开始,可能你们有些人会相信。

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