数月来，我一直在读这本书。

I have been reading this book for months.

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在读这本书之前，我对对冲基金几乎一无所知。

I was pretty ignorant about hedge funds before reading this book.

youdao

事实上，更多的孩子在读这本书之前会浏览一下插图。

In fact, most children tend to look through the illustrations before they even begin reading the book.

youdao

I've explained my embarrassment about using terms that I really have no absolutely no idea of the meaning of except that I'm told what the meaning of them is in the books that I am reading, which are the same books that you're reading.

我已经解释过了，用这些我完全不知道什么意思的词,真的很尴尬，除非有人告诉我他们是什么意思,就像这本书里说的那样,而我读的这本书，也就是你们现在也在读的。

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Well, one of the greatest philosophers I ever read was Aristotle and I think his Nicomachean Ethics, if you read it, makes a great deal of sense -where you live with this golden mean but at the end use your intellect.

我所了解的哲学家之一是,亚里士多德，我觉得他写的《尼各马克伦理学》,非常有意义，如果你读一读的话你就会发现这一点,-在读这本书时你与他的中庸之道同在,但最终你还需动用你的智慧。

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