一个男人死了以后来到地狱，撒旦迎接了他，给他看了三道门，然后说，“这些门后面的都是一个屋子，你必须在里面度过你的余生。”

A man dies and goes to hell. Satan greets him, shows him three doors, and says, "You must spend the rest of eternity in one of the rooms behind these doors."

youdao

这就是语言学家们研究的问题，如果你听了我的讲解然后说，“我想用我的余生来研究这些东西”，那你该去做一个语言学家。

And this is what linguists do for a living so if you hear me talking about this and say, "I want to spend the next forty years of my life studying that," you should become a linguist.

youdao

在你的余生中，你每一次走路的时间都必须和同一个人在一起，是不是让你有点害怕？

Spending almost every waking moment with the same person for the rest of your life may alternately seem comforting and terrifying.

youdao

And this is what linguists do for a living so if you hear me talking about this and say, "I want to spend the next forty years of my life studying that," you should become a linguist.

这就是语言学家们研究的问题,如果你听了我的讲解然后说,"我想用我的余生来研究这些东西",那你该去做一个语言学家

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