But when you asked them why they didn't try it the answers tended to be "I would look silly."

但当你问他们为什么不尝试时,他们的答案往往是“这样做会很傻”

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You have a little more pressure in grad school, but sometimes that means when you're an undergrad your advisor will decide to put you on projects that maybe when you look at them seem a little bit silly.

那就是你们没有，要做出重大发现,或取得重大成就的压力,你们在研究生时候会有些压力,当然有时候这意味着。

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Margaret Morrissey, of the National Confederation of Parent Teacher Associations, said it would be silly to tell them not to watch the match.

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They also have a lot of information about the idiomatic differences between the languages, to stop them making silly mistakes.

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Since coins have not contained precious metals for about the past 50 years, it would be silly to try munching on them nowadays.

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