Of course, in the nature of things, and with a lot of drinking going on, people failed to notice.

当然了，事出必然，酒酣之间人们没有注意到。

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The common view that drinking makes you forget about things and impairs your learning is not wrong, but it highlights only one side of what alcohol does to the brain.

“喝酒可以使你忘却烦恼，并削弱你学习的能力”这种大众观点并没有错误，但是它仅仅强调了酒精对大脑的一种作用。

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As they are taking the drinking or edible things here, the people just assemble.

他说：“他们把吃的和喝的东西运来的时候，人们就聚集起来。”

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But things were different now. Friends said she was drinking too much alcohol.

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It might have been some young people studying, about to go into the monastery, and I think from the text one could definitely get that sense, because so much of the text deals with the things that they are about to give up - you know, lust and drinking and all the really incredibly good things in life that they're about to give up.

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