To buy a fish about the length of your forearm, for example, the conversation might go as follows.

比如，要买一条像前臂那样长的鱼，会有以下的对话。

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There are about 30 000 species of fish in the world.

世界上约有3万种鱼。

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How about feeding some fish?

你喂喂鱼怎么样呀？

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But officials are fishing for ideas about what to do with all those fish, which could get pretty smelly.

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It was nice because it wasn't just, "Okay, Let's write a story" or "Let's do a research about the animal" or "Let's do a poem about fish".

说它出色，因为孩子们这样做，不是因为老师要求“,或布置的任务“,或学校强制。

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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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In the early 1990s he had spent three years in Moscow as correspondent for the Philadelphia Enquirer, spoke Russian and liked to travel, so it is not surprising to find that he is more naive about fish than he is about Russia.

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Naive as he is about finding fish, he writes well about the Russians he meets, from his friend Yuri Brodsky who has spent 25 years cataloguing the history of the first Soviet gulag on the Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea to Fyodorovich, a trapper, who survived the camps in Siberia and stayed on to live like a hermit in the boundless far eastern taiga.

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More than once his contacts through diplomatic work turned out to be especially knowledgeable about fish.

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