"Tea or coffee?" John asked.

“喝茶还是喝咖啡？” 约翰问。

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"You mean that nice lady?" John asked.

“你是指那位和蔼的女士吗？”约翰问道。

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“But what am I doing here？”Old John asked.

我来这儿干什么？

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The Judge had writen it at the same day that John asked him for the money for his first hunting trip.

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Remember I asked you from the preface, John Ray's preface, to figure out who Dolly Schiller is, who dies in childbed.

还记得我曾让你们找出约翰·雷序言中的，死在产床上的多莉是谁。

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Let me ask you a question first about John Barth and the stories that I asked you to read. Which of them was your favorite? Some cackling I hear None of them?Which of them was your favorite?

我先来问你们一个关于约翰·巴斯和我让你们读的,故事的问题，你们最喜欢哪个故事，我听到一些咯咯笑的声音,都不喜欢吗，你们最喜欢哪个故事啊？

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John asked posters not to take the whole thing too seriously.

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His big break came nearly 50 years ago, when saxophone great John Coltrane asked him to join his quartet.

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Or will he start a serious pullout or even ask the question John McCain asked--How do we win this thing?

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