我上这门课是为了增强我在公开演讲方面的信心，而不是为了提高考试成绩。

It was to build my confidence for public speaking that I took the course, not to improve performance in examinations.

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另一方面，比起大多数美国人，在大多数亚洲文化中人们在公开表达自己的感受时要谨慎得多。

On the other hand, people in most Asian cultures are far more guarded about expressing their feelings publicly than most Americans are.

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当你私下在你的扶手椅中抱怨不断时，为你支撑起这面镜子的记者们却是在公开地这么做着，这也使他们处在了极大的危险中。

While you may grumble in the privacy of your armchair, the journalists who hold the mirror up to you do so publicly and are at great risk to themselves.

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I do it every week. It just so happens that this argument is more closed, more settled, in my own mind.

我每个星期都这样做，只是现在这个讨论,在我心中，是更不公开的，更稳定的。

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And, you've undoubtedly heard a lot in the public press, and even in the political dialogue such as it is these days that hydrogen might be on environmentally friendly fuel.

毫无疑问你已经在公开新闻上，甚至在政治的对话上听到过了,比如最近这些天,氢气是一种环境友好的燃料。

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Would it be better for people to be able to see everyone and maybe not feel like this is a secure environment in which they can share their interests and what they thought and what they care about?

我们可以选择,将用户信息全部公开,但在这样一个网络环境下,分享自己的所见所闻,所感所想,总会让人觉得不可靠？

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