在这篇小说里，总会有这样的地方：当你读完这一行的时候还在大笑不止，突然有一个人物被枪杀了，你笑着笑着就开始觉得很不舒服。

And in that story, there's always a point where you keep laughing past this line, and suddenly someone's being shot and you're laughing and then [readers] get very uncomfortable.

youdao

行，中国是个很不错的国家。

Why not? China is a wonderful country.

youdao

嗨行。我刚发现了一个广播节目，很不错，是关于中国历史和文化的。

Not bad. I have just found a good radio program about Chinese history and culture.

youdao

So it's these little differences that you'll very quickly acclimate to but it's these stupid little syntactic details that trips off, especially those less comfortable early on because if you leave out a single character, namely that semicolon on the right hand side, nothing will work.

你会很快适应这些,微小的区别,但我们正是要把这些罗里吧嗦的语法细节,尤其是那些让人非常头大的句子啃下来才行,因为如果我们一旦遗漏掉某个符号，譬如一个分号,从另一方面看来，很有可能什么都工作不了。

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