However, when told well, a joke can cause great amusement and lift the mood of the gathering.

然而，如果讲的好的话，笑话可以带给人们很多的娱乐并且可以提升整个聚会的情绪。

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Apparently, he was doing well in the upper level courses and when people asked him why, he told them he had learned a lot from being my student.

显然，艾伯特在他的高级课程中表现得很好，当其他同学询问他原因时，他告诉他们，那是因为他从我的课堂中学到了很多。

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Women often bear excruciating pressures around choosing when to have a child, from all angles, while men are told their biology is limitless, hence their chance at fatherhood is as well.

从各方面来讲，女性在何时要小孩这个问题上通常承受着巨大的压力，而男性，由于被告知他们的生理条件是没有时间限制的，因此他们做父亲的机会则一直良好。

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And he had these jewels, well he thought they were black pearls, and he told his mom when he got home, he said,"Send those pearls to Mrs.Collum and her daughter."

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When you first bought the house they told you what the mortgage payment was and they're fixing that forever, well for thirty years.

最初你买这套房子的时候,他们已经告诉你每月偿还额是多少,在未来30年里这是固定的

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And his answer was, "Well, when my father sent me here, he told me a number of things that I'm supposed to do, but the most important of these was the Greek words, aien aristeioi, always be the Best.

他的回答是,"当我父亲把我送到这里时,他对我说了,我该做到的几件事,而其中最重要的就是,用古希腊语说"aien aristeioi",事事为先

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