一起散步时，我和父亲曾有过很多交谈，这使我从他的经历中学到了很多。

Walking together, my father and I used to have a lot of conversations through which I learned lessons from his experiences.

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从他的经历中我学会了珍惜生命。

I learned the value of the life from his experience.

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这种经历是他过去试图从记忆中抹去的。

The experience was something he had tried to expunge from his memory.

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you can see that already Sal is taking what he can get from this language and transposing it into his experience of reality.

你会看到Sal在说他能从这语言中得到什么,并转换成他的现实经历。

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