Writing a textbook is a lot of work, and I am sometimes asked why I choose to spend my time this way. So let me explain.

写书需要投入很大精力，有时候我也会问自己为何要这样安排时间，以下是一些理由。

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This was the first time I had ever been asked that specific question directly.

这是第一次我被直接问到这个具体问题。

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And while I was there, a young woman asked me a question I hear all the time: "What are we doing as a nation to bring jobs back to this country?"

在那里的时候，有个年轻女士问了我一个耳熟能详的问题，“我们国家在创造就业方面都在做些啥啊？”

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Like homework for me at the time was actually fun ; and there is some addictive about this; Tej and I even asked Tej during last year's final exam period.

对我而言就像当时做功课一样,但是真的有趣，我有点上瘾了;,在去年的期末考试期间我还请教过。

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Incidentally, I mentioned this last time-- I was talking about-- I was philosophizing about wealth and I asked what are you going to do with a billion dollars.

顺便提一句,最后提一次,我在讲,我在探讨财富,我在讲如果你有一百万美元你会做什么

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Now in the course of this, a student asked a very good question that I should have pointed out a long time ago, and that is: when an orchestra plays or an ensemble plays and they're looking at their music and they're reading their music, do they play a chord?

在这期间，我本该早就提起的，由一个学生提出的非常好的问题是，当管弦乐队演奏或合奏团演出时,他们各个盯着并读自己的那部分乐谱，他们奏出和弦了吗？

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As a general matter, I think when Americans are asked this question at a time of an economic downturn, I'm not surprised that they give a negative answer.

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At the end of my playing, he asked me if I would play the whole sonata again and that this time he just wanted to listen.

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