My friend asked me, "When will you go to Hainan for your holiday?"

我的朋友问我：“你什么时候去海南度假？”

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Later, the friend asked the farmer why he planted the tree in such a poor place.

后来，朋友问农夫为什么把树栽在那么贫瘠的地方。

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"What's that delicious smell?" a friend asked.

“这是什么香味？”一个朋友问道。

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I did as my friend asked me to do and this story is the result.

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if your friend asked to borrow $100 from you, ... you would probably not say-- you might actually put interest on this person, so you could say, alright, I'll do it with 5% interest, pay me back in a year.

你的朋友向你借100美元，你可能不会说-,你可能会对他收取利息，因此你没准会说，好吧，我要收5%的利息，一年之后连本带利还我。

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So my friend decided he'd give it a try and he raised his hand and he said, "Voltaire," and then paused and hesitated and continued with his lecture as though my friend had never asked his question.

所以我朋友也决定要试试,他就举起手说：“伏尔泰“,然后停顿一下，犹豫会儿，就又接着开始讲了,就好像我朋友没问过问题一样。

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When Shepard Fairey was a student at the Rhode Island School of Design in the late 1980s, a friend asked him how to make a stencil.

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