They'd think to themselves, if Xiaomei's sisters had taken the lessons learned from Ban Zhao to heart, why wouldn't Xiaomei?

他们暗自思量，如果小梅的姐姐们用心学习了班昭的训示，小梅怎么会没学过呢？

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She made students think for themselves, rather than telling them what to think.

她让学生们自己思考，而不是告诉他们思考什么。

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He told the senators not to think of themselves as members of any court.

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her brothers were eleven and nine: unusually young actors, we might think, to be engaged in such high-flying philosophical debates as these two characters find themselves in.

分别是11岁和9岁，不寻常的小演员，我们可能会想，他们来演这雄心壮志的哲学辩论,是怎么样的。

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So I don't think that anyone who's capable of understanding my views, and therefore obviously competent to decide for themselves whether they want to go on living should feel threatened by what I'm saying.

所以对于那些能够,理解我的观点的人们，和那些能够决定,是否要活下去的人们,我的言论并不会对他们产生威胁。

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"Farmers going out to work need to stop, to think, to ask themselves what may have changed, " Mr Downey added.

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The emphasis now is on encouraging pupils to think for themselves, and to develop flexible learning skills that will enable 60% of 18-30 year olds to be in tertiary education by 2010.

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Not that they admit to being superstitious: Bhutanese prefer to think of themselves as being fine-tuned to the invisible forces of nature.

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