I had to ask the teacher what to do next.

我不得不问老师下一步做什么。

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I had to ask my friends for help.

我不得不向我的朋友求助。

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I got a bit lost and I had to ask a stranger, but I got here eventually.

我有点迷路了，不得不向一个陌生人问路，但我还是走到了这里。

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So this, too, fairly straightforward and yet and this was a socially awkward moment I had to ask her are you an adult or a senior?

这个也相当简单,这是一个社会尴尬的时候,我必须问她是一张成人票还是老人票？

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I had to ask them questions like, "What's the best present you've ever got?

我得问他们像这样的问题，“你收到过的最好的礼物是什么？”

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If I had to ask you to choose a-- no, name a famous psychologist, the answer of most of you would be Freud.

如果我让大家选出一位-,不，是说出一位著名心理学家的名字，你们大家多数人会回答，弗洛伊德。

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This post started because I had to ask myself why I was not shipping.

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Watching Woodford, I had to ask myself how I would have acted if I had been in his position.

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The next question I had to ask was, How do I accomplish it?

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