I've explained my embarrassment about using terms that I really have no absolutely no idea of the meaning of except that I'm told what the meaning of them is in the books that I am reading, which are the same books that you're reading.

我已经解释过了，用这些我完全不知道什么意思的词,真的很尴尬，除非有人告诉我他们是什么意思,就像这本书里说的那样,而我读的这本书，也就是你们现在也在读的。

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This was no ordinary snow shovel, I explained.

FORBES: Learn to Trust People with Firsthand Experience

Back to my lunch: I obviously had no idea what type I was, and I listened with bemused interest as the partner explained the instrument to me.

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In my previous post, I explained why the United States is in under no short-term or long-term danger of going into a debt crisis.

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