On our first or second date, Dave asked me so many earnest questions about my award-winning background in ballroom dance that I finally confessed I knew only the jitterbug.

在我们第一次第二次约会时，迪夫很认真地问我很多关于我优秀的交际舞的历史，我最后坦白我只知道吉特巴舞。

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So when the organizers called me the following week and asked if I would participate as the first in a series of celebrity unpluggers, I immediately thought, “This is a fantastic4) idea.”

所以,在此后的一个星期,当活动的组织者打电话问我是否愿意加入他们,成为响应断网断电活动系列名人中的第一个参与者时,我立刻就想到:这个主意太不靠谱了。

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He answered the phone, he sounded very down. I thought let him speak first, so I asked: What is it that's so important?

他接电话，语气很沉重，我想就让他先说，所以我问：什么事那么重要？

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So what I want to do today is look closely first at the selections from Black Boy that I asked you to read and to look at those as a text and to ask ourselves what kind of story it is.

它们细微的差别,我先读部分《黑孩子》,先前我布置给大家去阅读,并思考几个问题,我发现了什么,故事是什么类型。

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