“In training, the most important lesson they teach you is when not to do something,” he said. “But in real life, it's all about staying out of trouble and surviving.

“上学时，老师教我们的最重要内容就是什么事不可以做，”他说，“但在现实生活中，我们得到的教训就是如何避免遇到麻烦，并在社会上生存下去。”

youdao

One incident stands out in particular.We were about an hour into the lesson and had just graduated from the backroads of the student's hometown to a two-lane street with steady traffic.

却曾经有过一次特别的小插曲，那时我们已训练了将近一小时，离开学员家乡的乡村道路，进入拥有稳定车流的双行道。

youdao

One incident stands out in particular. We were about an hour into the lesson and had just graduated from the backroads of the student's hometown to a two-lane street with steady traffic.

却曾经有过一次特别的小插曲，那时我们已训练了将近一小时，离开学员家乡的乡村道路，进入拥有稳定车流的双行道。

youdao

So you can see why that would be kind of waving a red flag in front of the military and why they might, as you point out, want to teach a lesson of their own.

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They've had the toughest possible lesson in what legislating way out of the Assembly's comfort zone feels like, and if there was a vote tomorrow on whether to make it law, I wouldn't be in the least confident that it would pass.

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