Then she picked up the phone and called everyone in her address book, asking if they knew other young women with cancer.

然后她拿起电话，给通讯录里的每个人都打了电话，问他们是否认识其他患癌症的年轻女性。

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Make your questions into the email by telling him something you like to do and then asking if he's ever tried it.

把你的问题写进电子邮件里，告诉他你喜欢做的事情，然后问他有没有试过。

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Are you married, if you don't mind me asking?

如果你不介意，请问你结婚了吗？

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If a friend keeps asking you to do something you do not want to do, you might ask him to leave you alone or "stop bugging me."

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Milton makes a covenant with the reader. It's as if he's signing a contract because he's asking for credit here.

他与读者签了契约，就好像,因为他要借款所以签了份合同一样。

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You can figure Milton asking in this poem Lycidas if it's true: is it true what the Elder Brother said, ? that virtue is always rewarded and evil punished?

可以看出在《利西达斯》中弥尔顿是在问：,《科玛斯》中哥哥所说的，善有善报恶有恶报是真的么？

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All too frequently, when I hear folks describe what they are tasting, they say their flavors as if asking a question.

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Finally, he thrust out his hands, as if asking to be handcuffed.

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If asking a millionaire to pay the same tax rate as a plumber makes me a class warrior, a warrior for the working class, I will accept that.

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