可能看上去很奇怪，但这是一个文化传统。

It might seem odd,but it is a cultural tradition.

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我们经常感到我们无法控制我们的日程表，但这是一个错误的看法。

We often feel that we have no control over our schedule but this is a myth.

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但这是一个笨拙的内阁。

But it was a clumsy one.

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But they were fully formed adults and intellectuals, and that was a heady experience for a kid from Chicago.

但他们是很成熟的成人和知识分子，而这对一个来自芝加哥的小孩来说很不同。

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It's interesting, and you can see that's a very persuasive argument, but you can also see how that could be abused.

很有趣，可以看出,这是一个很有说服力的观点，但也能看出这个观点是如何遭到滥用的。

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So, that translation causes people to believe that ; The story is giving me an account of the first event in time forward; But it's actually a bad translation.

因此，这种翻译让人们相信,这个故事将讲述时间存在以来的第一件事;,但事实上这是一个有误的翻译。

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