I didn't know what college I wanted to go to.

我不知道我想上什么样的大学。

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The evening didn't need another eloquent, grandiose speech about the state of global health. Jerry let go of all his hard preparation in favor of what he saw was best in the moment.

那晚已经有太多关于世界卫生情况的冠冕堂皇的长篇大论，杰里所做的，却是放弃之前辛苦准备的成果，选择最适合当时当地的话题来发表演说。

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When we had like a surprise -- wegot to go out to someplace very fancy, didn't really know what was going tohappen ahead of time.

惊喜就是——我们一起外出，去一个豪华的地方，我们真的不知道接下来会发生什么。

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when I've been surprised. When we had like a surprise we got to go out to someplace very fancy, didn't really know what was going to happen ahead of time.

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So here we're talking about how food comes to the table. what happens just materializing it into fish sticks. We didn't just go out to the river and poured out the fish sticks.

因此在这我们将探讨食物的制作过程,什么让鱼变成冻鱼条,并不是可以去河里,把冻鱼条直接倒出来。

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He either didn't know what he was getting into or didn't know how to go about it.

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