We thought that even if we started educating girls today, we'd have to wait a generation for the pay off.

我们认为，即使我们今天开始教育女孩，我们也要等一代人的时间才能得到回报。

youdao

You pastor thought it would be helpful for me to come and speak with you today about my lowly occupation.

你们的牧师请我来是因为他认为如果我能讲讲我这个平凡的工作，也许能给你们一点帮助。

youdao

I thought your article today was very interesting because for one thing, I could identify with the fear of taking a leap of faith into the unknown.

我认为你今天的文章非常有趣。 跟着感觉走，将自己投入到未知领域时所产生的恐惧，让我们十分相似。

youdao

It's going to lead to a lot of interesting things. It's also going to create a really huge problem for monotheistic thought they're going to struggle with for centuries and actually still do struggle with today.

并会引发一系列的有趣事件，它也将给一神论思想,带来一个相当大的问题，这个问题,他们纠结了好几个世纪，直到现在依然存在。

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Discussing the issue on the Today programme, regular Thought for the Day speaker Christina Rees , said she thought the programme is already secular enough.

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