我问为什么，是饮食原因吗，他说，“不是”。

I asked why –because of the food? He said, “No.”

youdao

有一次我问为什么，他说浇水会毁了这些树，如果浇水，每一棵成活的树的后代会变得越来越娇弱。

Once I asked why. He said that watering plants spoiled them, and that if you water them, each successive tree generation will grow weaker and weaker.

youdao

我可否问一下你为什么要作出那样的决定？

May I ask why you took that decision?

《牛津词典》

So we have to assume that the occasion for this poem is some kind of question posed by John Milton, Sr., a question like, "To what end am I supporting you, Son?

我们可以假定这个诗的起因是,老约翰弥尔顿问小弥尔顿，“我到底为什么要资助你，儿子？“

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And now someone else perhaps, why did I include this -l switch followed by "cs50" at the tail end?

现在有些人可能会问：,为什么我在用“cs50“结尾时，又在它之前,加了个“-l“命令？

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Which is sort of the question we'd immediately like to ask. Instead, I asked why did it produce the result it did. So I'm not asking myself what's wrong? Or how could I make it right?

其实这个问题我们马上就要问,我问了为什么它会返回这样的结果,因此我并没有去在意哪儿错了,或者我该怎么改正它，我在意的是它？

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