你不需要一天花费数个小时和你的家庭教师呆在一起，一周几个小时，甚至一周一个小时或许就足以使你走上正轨。

You do not need to spend hours a day with your tutor. A few hours a week, or even one hour a week, can be enough to keep you on track.

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洪水与饥荒一样，在最高浪潮退去后的数个星期和几个月里破坏程度最高。

Floods, like famines, do their worst damage in the weeks and months after the highest waters have subsided.

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还记得手机出现之前的一段时间吗？那时你不得不打无数个电话，才能把几个朋友聚在一起去看电影。

"Remember a time before cellphones, when you had to make a bazillion calls to try to organize getting a group of friends to meet for a movie?" he asks.

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