But carrots loose their sweetness if you wait too long to pull them from the ground.

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stay there because who knows, there are 20 million other things I might have said, but instead let me give you the opportunity to ask questions that you would like to raise, particularly if you want to ask about how they fought, as long as we have a phalanx here we might as well use it if we need too.

你们先别走,因为,谁知道还有什么呢,我还有一肚子的东西想给你们讲,但最好还是留给你们,一些提问的机会,尤其是关于战斗的问题,讲台上正好有一列方阵可以用来讲解

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Because I feel like if, if I sit in front of the computer screen for too long, I just get distracted

因为如果我坐在电脑屏幕前太长时间，就会注意力不集中的，

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