He obsessively asked friends and fellow scholars which dialectal words would be most widely understood.

他痴迷于询问朋友及共事的学者哪些方言词汇才是最广为人知的。

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Christmas awaited us in the county town of Jianhe,swhereswe had asked friends to send a few special items to help us concoct some sort of celebration.

圣诞节在贵州省剑河县等待着我们，我们已经让朋友们把几样圣诞节物品寄到了那里，那些物品能帮我们安排一些庆祝仪式。

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Moreover, they asked friends who study in France to be their contact person and arrange some cheap accomendations during their stay abroad to save money as much as they can.

除此之外，他们请求在法国留学的朋友做为联络人；为了尽可能节省在国外期间的开销，他们还安排了便宜的住处。

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At a dinner party at his friends' house, a young woman asked him if he would be sailing home soon.

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In fact, he was knocked unconscious only for a short period and then he got up and his friends surrounded him and asked, "Are you okay?"

事实上，他只是短暂失去知觉,然后他起来了,他的朋友围过来问道，你还好吗“

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