Postman was writing before the internet became such a force in our societies, but I believe he got it right.

早在互联网在社会中变得如此有力之前，波兹曼已经写了评论，但我相信他的说法是正确。

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Even before college, I got job offers in some amazing wilderness locations.

甚至在上大学以前，我就得到过一些可以不错的户外工作的机会。

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My last stop before going home for Thanksgiving was in Kosovo, where Madeleine Albright, Wes Clark, and I got a roaring welcome.

在回国过感恩节之前，我们到达出访的最后一站——科索沃，我、马德莱娜·奥尔布赖特、韦斯·克拉克在那里受到了极为热烈的欢迎。

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"I guess it was a process of waking up to what I was actually doing and just as I am helping set up all these memorials out here, I think back to some of the things that were part of my day to day life in the military even before I got to Iraq, just how some of our battle cries would be things like kill them all."

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And as I mentioned before, death would occur in 20-30 percent of the cases that got the most severe form of smallpox.

就像我刚说的,百分之二十到三十的,天花重症病人会死亡

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Basic idea, before I even look at the code, is pretty simple. If I've got a list that is sorted, in let's call it, just in increasing order, and I haven't said what's in the list, could be numbers, could be other things, for now, we're going to just assume they're integers.

我们可以说基本的思想是很简单的,如果我有一个排好序的数组，让我们认为这个数组是递增的吧，我并没说数组里元素是什么，可能是数字，也可能是其他的东西，现在我们假设是integer类型的数字吧，最简单的方式就是这么做了：

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Sometime between 2008 and 2009, or perhaps before then, I got it in my head that the best poetry was political in nature, the best fiction was psychological or sociological in nature, and the best non-fiction, well, was non-fiction!

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Once I French-kissed a male friend of mine in Shanghai right before I got into a taxi.

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"I had been playing the violin for about eight years before I got paralyzed, " said Wan in a YouTube video about the performance.

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