I've sent off for some books for my course.

我已去函邮购一些上课用的书。

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Of course, and that's why I listed two of his books in my list of ten.

当然，而且就是为什么我的“十书”名单里面有他的两本书的原因。

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But I got my place and, for the next nine months of the course, spent my nights in our caravan home reading text books, desperately trying to gain the basic knowledge I was expected to have.

但我还是入了学，在接下来的九个月的课程里，我每天晚上在大篷车里啃教科书，拼命汲取我需要掌握的基本知识。

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Today, of course, I just download several books on my iPad rather than lugging the printed versions halfway around the world, but the thought process is the same.

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