When Dennis Williams received a text that clearly wasn't intended for him, he did something special.

当丹尼斯·威廉姆斯收到一条显然不是发给他的短信时，他做了一件特别的事。

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It’s Friday night, you’re at home on the couch, and you get a text that goes something like this: “What are you getting into tonight?”

星期五晚上，你躺在家里的沙发上，收到一条信息，内容大致如下：“今晚有何打算？”

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That is the good news.The bad news is there isn't a text that fits this syllabus, so we choose readings from various sources.And the text that I have chosen is the best of a bad lot.

那是个好消息，坏消息是，没有与课程大纲对应的课本，我们从很多的资源中选取阅读材料，我选的课本不过是糟粕中的精华。

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But the White House released the text on Monday, and that calmed a lot of critics.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

That is the good news.The bad news is there isn't a text that fits this syllabus, so we choose readings from various sources.And the text that I have chosen is the best of a bad lot.

那是个好消息，坏消息是,没有与课程大纲对应的课本，我们从很多的资源中选取阅读材料,我选的课本不过是糟粕中的精华。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

It is those aspects of a text, the way in which those devices of a text that call themselves to our attention, are new: that is to say, the way in which they shake up perception through the fact that we're not used to seeing them.

他是文本的一个方面，是文本用于,吸引我们注意的一种工具，非常新奇：,也就是说，它们用我们从未见过的方式,去描述事物。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

It has poor illustrations (largely taken from film stills) and a text that regurgitates versions of Everest history from better, secondary sources.

ECONOMIST: Madness and its men

If it were not to invite an even bigger raspberry, a new vote would have to be on a text that had been revised or qualified in some way.

ECONOMIST: The European Union constitution

They send that code, via text message, to a toll-free phone number, and immediately receive a text back that indicates whether or not the drug is legit.

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