“如果我能心想事成”，莎伦沉思自语道，“我想只工作半天。”

"If I could have just what I wanted," Sharon mused, "I'd work half days."

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他父亲一定要见到她，我一遍遍地发誓，如果那个魔鬼想阻止这个，即使让他死在他自己的门阶前也成！

Her father shall see her, I vowed, and vowed again, if that devil is killed on his own doorstones in trying to prevent it!

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他父亲一定要见到她，我发誓，又发誓，如果那个魔鬼想阻止这个，即使让他死在他自己的门阶前也成！

Her father shall see her, I vowed, and vowed again, if that devil be killed on his own doorstones in trying to prevent it!

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Edith, a reader of sublime simplicity, as de Man says, misinterprets the rhetorical question as a grammatical question: "What is the difference? I'm curious to know."

而依迪斯一个极端天真的读者，正如德曼所说，错误地将这个修辞问句理解成一个语法型问句：,“区别在哪里呢，我想知道“

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We could also, I think, well, maybe this isn't written out in terms of that convention, which sometimes it's not, so let's also try writing it, such that we have the hydrogen and the oxygen atom there.

我们也可以，我想，好吧，还有可能它不是按照惯例写的，有时候会出现这样的情况，因此，让我们把氢原子和,氧原子成键的情况也写出来。

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The reason for that is two reasons: first, I want to run it as a workshop, in which you involve and participation.

这样是因为：,首先，我想把课上成一节讨论课，让大家积极参与。

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