I mean to say, you should have known how he would react!

我的意思是说，你本应料到他会作何反应！

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Here's how I would normally answer the question, but instead I should say what he probably wants to hear.

通常情况下我会这样回答这个问题，但是在这里我要说出的则是他想听到的答案。

youdao

I should say, the more I tell you I don't need you to know, the more your physics and other teachers might complain that, oh, these guys don't know how to integrate.

我对你们的要求越低，物理老师或其他科老师，就会抱怨的越厉害，他们会抱怨“这些家伙居然不知道怎么求积分

youdao

Although I don't quite understand--I should say, there's many things about how the fighting went on which we can only attempt to imagine because we just don't have films of ancient hoplite battles, I'm sorry to say.

虽然我有时也很困惑,比如说,战场上瞬息万变,情况非常复杂,由于没有古代重步兵白刃战的影像资料,我们只能猜想战场上发生了什么,真的是很遗憾

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