"There was a feeling that if you weren't participating in the discussion, you weren't living up to expectations for the classroom which really wasn't how other classrooms worked.

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That little story I told last time, I thought I was describing a world in which my mind exists and my body doesn't, but it wasn't really imagining a world like that.

我上次讲的那个小故事,我认为我在描述一个,我的心灵存在,但身体不存在的世界,而不是真的想象出那样一个世界

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But he didn't think of it; other times all kinds of funny stories are told about the oracle, which would suggest that it wasn't really a very reliable source of information, that it was filled with mythology and so on and so forth.

但是他并没有想到这点,还有很多关于神谕有趣的故事,都能够暗示出,神谕并不是一个非常可靠的信息来源,它充满了神话色彩或其他因素

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Sometimes in life you have to think about yourself and I wasn't playing football, which was really frustrating.

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