What I started to notice about those newly rare occasions when the TV came back on, aside from their quaintness, was how much TV viewing actually promotes passivity in viewership.

除了有趣特别的节目，当电视回归生活中，我开始注意到最近极少的情况，就是电视在多大程度上让观众们变得被动了。

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She started talking to me and teaching me some things and from what I made out from the conversation was that she had a son and she wanted me to maybe teach her son English, but I wasn't quite sure.

从懂得有限的对话中，得知她有一个儿子，希望或许教她儿子英文，我不太肯定。

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Maybe you're paying me indirectly, but I shouldn't be collecting money from you and then awarding grades; that wouldn't be right, but that's what has started to happen.

也许你们正在间接的给我发薪水，但是我不应该从你们手里拿钱，然后按钱给学分，那样是不对的，但是事实就是这样发生了。

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"I am shocked and terrified at the heavy casualty toll from what simply started as unruly behaviour from a handful of people, " Hearts of Oak captain, Jacob Nettey, said.

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While growth has been much more controlled, my network started to look a lot more like what I was hoping to build from the get go.

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Then I started a financial planning software company, which makes suggestions about what benefits to take from Social Security and when to take them to get the best overall deal. (see, in this regard, www.maximizemysocialsecurity.com and www.esplanner.com).

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