We say them when someone hands us a letter, passes us a book, offers us a drink, or lends us an umbrella.

当某人递给我们一封信，递给我们一本书，给我们一杯饮料，或者借给我们一把伞时，我们就会说它们。

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Excuse me, I received a letter that I am supposed to return a book that I checked out back in September, it's called Modern Social Problems.

打扰一下，我收到一封信说我该还一本书，它是我九月份借出的，书名是《现代社会问题》。

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Well, I received a letter in my mailbox saying that I'm supposed to return a book that I checked out back in January, it's called "Modern Social Problems".

嗯，我在邮箱里收到一封信，说我应该归还我一月份借的一本书，书名是《现代社会问题》。

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And the appearance of conventionality is supported by the opening words of the book in his dedicatory letter.

且常规的表面,有本书开头前几个字正面背书,就在他的献辞中。

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The Letter to the Hebrews,one letter of John, he rejects the Shepherd of Hermas,which is a book that we include in a groupings of writing we call the Apostolic Fathers.

希伯来书，它是约翰的一封书信，他摈弃了黑马牧人书,我们把它列入了使徒教父文集里。

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You see the system of blinks to signal to an assistant working with him each letter of the book.

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The letter also mentions loaning the book out, which could mean he felt a need to keep his books clean for other readers (this is perhaps a more persuasive argument).

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Mr Robertson, who wrote a book, The Dawkins Letter, in response to the scientist's The God Delusion, claimed Prof Dawkins' visit was not to promote science but to "advance a polemic", or controversial argument.

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