我小的时候爸爸给了我一本被他称之为珍宝的《道德经》，并督促我读它。

When I was young my father gave me a copy of the Daodejing - a treasure he called it, urging me to read it.

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感谢你们出了这本极为有趣的杂志，我每个月都如饥似渴地读它。

Thank you for a most entertaining magazine, which I read avidly each month.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

我还没有像读小说那样把它读完。

I haven't read it through the way I'd read a novel.

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I used it so that they could record all of the books that they read about Japanese culture.

我用它是为了让孩子们能记录下,他们读过的所有有关日本文化的书。

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It used to be when I was in grad school that most people said, "Oh,it was written around the year 200."

当我读研究生的时候大多数人认为，它形成于主后两百年“

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I should have read it a lecture or two ago when I started talking about immortality, but I misplaced it.

我应该在一两节课之前读它,即在我开始谈论永生的时候，但是我当时把它放错地方了。

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