But I couldn't get out of the requirement, and so I found myself in my last semester before graduation with Speech as one of my classes.

但我无法摆脱课程的要求，所以在毕业前的最后一学期，我发现我成为班里的演讲者之一。

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"The treatment should last four months, but my father started to think it was all a con," he said. "he realised that in the classes no one could express opinions contrary to what they were told."

“治疗应该是四个月的，但是我爸开始意识到这完全是骗局，”他说，“他意识到班上没人可以表达与治疗灌输的思想相左的想法。”

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Unfortunately, I was sick last Monday so my colleagues my classes. They reviewed the topics that we have learned recently.

很不幸，周一我生病了，所以由我的同事给代课。他们复习了最近我们所学的内容。

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So for example, I know that last year, for a lot of my classes,

例如，去年的时候，我有很多课，

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