You should ask your professor to put some of the copies on reserve.

你应该让你的教授保留一些复印件。

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If still no luck, give your professor a polite E-mail stating you'd like to get your books early so you can prepare for the class. Ask which books you need to buy.

如果没有，那么礼貌地发一封Email给你的教授询问你需要为新学期购买那些课本。

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It had taken two years for Professor Dai to cross the courtyard and ask Siyu about the thick volume that she had been reading every day.

等到戴教授有一天穿过院子来到思玉面前，问她每天在看的厚厚一本是什么书时，那已经是两年以后的事情了。

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Cos I ask them to go back to interview their parents or whoever they could find out information about themselves, just like the professor was interviewing people to find out his own background and his family, I want them to go home, and interview their parents or grandparents, or aunts and uncles.

因为我让他们回家去采访,父母或任何他们能搜集到,关于自己信息的人，就像教授采访人们,来发掘自己的背景和家庭，我希望他们回家去，采访他们的父母,或爷爷奶奶，或舅舅舅妈。

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Then it would ask which of the listed textbooks the professor expects him to have read by now.

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