When you compare students of equivalent intelligence and past academic achievements, what sets them apart is hope.

当你比较智力相当的学生和他们过去的学业成就时，（会发现）让他们与众不同的是希望。

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If you turn right as soon as you get past the desk you'll see the door ahead of you.

一过服务台就向右转，你就能看到前面的门。

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Of the outstanding ladies listed below, who do you think was the most important woman of the past 100 years?

在下面列出的杰出女性中，你认为谁是过去100年中最重要的女性？

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And we do. Cracking jokes,grins, Long past the crack of dawn Like"How long will you be up?"

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But suppose you are in a train and you're moving past me and you look at this piece of chalk.

但假如你在火车上,从我面前驶过,你看着这支粉笔

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Well a number of you have spent this past week playing with this particular tool which is a project the course has been working on for some time in an effort to make it easier and more social to actually shop for courses.

在过去的一周里,已经有一部分人开始使用这种特殊的工具了,这门课程一直在致力于这一工具的开发,目的是为了让课程变的更简单,选课更人性化。

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On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone.

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These people were trapped in a time -- a present-oriented time zone in which you never think of the future, you never think of the past.

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Its objective is to recalibrate your mind and free you from the imprisonment of your past decisions, to break you free from the buy-and-hold state of mind and turn you into a buy-and-sell investor.

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