Maybe your colleagues want to chat constantly, or people keep phoning with trivial issues, or your housemates can't understand that you want to be left alone to work on a college assignment.

可能你的同事想不断地聊天，或者别人不断地打电话处理一些琐碎的事，或者你的室友不明白你想独自一人处理学院的事务。

youdao

Is your grandmother maybe saying that you should live here alone ?

菲比，你祖母是不是说你应该一个人住这里？

youdao

Leave her alone. Maybe she likes to have her eyes covered so she doesn't have to see your face.

你管她！也许她希望(头发长到)把眼睛盖住，好看不见你的脸啊！

youdao

And maybe if I were alone, by myself, and no one had ever seen these stories, maybe then, knowing that your versions are better than some of the ones I had sent, maybe I could get into this and go with it.

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