A few years ago we did ask someone from the technologies department to fix it, but they never seemed to have the time.

几年前我们就向技术部门的人提出要把它修好，但他们好像一直都没时间。

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A couple of months ago, I did an "Ask me Anything You Want" thread, and it seemed to be well liked.

两三个月前，我开始了一项名为“咨询我任何你想知道的事情”的选题，而且看起来很受欢迎。

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I had occasion to ask him about this a few years ago, and the first name that popped out was a fine Mexican restaurant, now shuttered, called Chilpancingo.

几年前我曾问过他一次，而他脑中蹦出来的第一个名字是一家不错的墨西哥餐厅的名字，这家餐厅现在已经关闭，叫Chilpancingo(奇尔潘餐厅)。

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If you ask someone a couple hundred years ago ? what's the essence of a bank?

如果你问一个几百年前的人,银行的本质是什么？

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It would have been unthinkable ten years ago to ask the provocatively downwardly mobile questions raised at a Financial Times conference on the future of America this morning.

FORBES: Does America Have A Financial System That Protects Savings?

An idealistic young attorney named Scott Chafin from Shreveport, Louisiana called me a year ago to ask if I would be an expert witness in a lawsuit asking Grambling St. for compensation for wrongful death.

FORBES: Death from Dehydration

Guolee's mother, Deborah Eck, told The Denver Post that Guolee called her husband a week and a half ago to ask for a ride to the police station so he could turn himself in for what she believed was a parole violation.

NPR: Gang Member Arrested In Corrections Killing Probe