她父亲被某个试图抢劫他的小零售店的人开枪打中了。

Her father was shot by someone trying to rob his small retail shop.

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一位法官敲响他的小木槌。

A judge bangs his gavel.

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从一开始他就知道他的小徒弟活不了多久。

The Teacher knew from the beginning that his little student could not live very long.

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But as he asks at the end, "... / when was that ever a bar / to any watch they keep?"

但他最后问的那句。,哪里什么时候有一个小酒馆/,用来让他们等待？

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He's saying they're doing great work but they forget this one little thing: you cannot reconcile rhetoric and grammar.

他说的是，他们做得非常好,但是他们忘记了一个小问题，修辞和语法是不可能和解的。

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Now the part of the essay just prior to this explains that he gave this little quiz that you see to some college students when he was giving a lecture.

在先前已经解释了这篇文章的一部分,他把你们所看到这个小测试在他的讲座上,给一些大学生做了。

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