我觉得这挺让人担忧的，不是因为我在写一本关于肯德基爷爷的书，我从来没期望过任何人尤其是25岁以下的人会去读这本书，而是我作为一个美国人为那么多人缺乏最基本的文化常识而感到难过，这就跟你不知道谁是托巴斯·杰斐逊或者越战什么时候结束一样缺乏常识。

I don't expect anybody under 25 to read it — or anybody else, for that matter. But it hurts me as an American to think that so many people lack such a basic piece of cultural information.

youdao

我也在研究黑格尔，并且不知道为什么下决心要读《尤里·塞斯》。

I was also studying Hegel and was determined, somehow or other, to read Ulysses.

youdao

我是这么想的，谁也不知道下一个“伟大想法”从何而来，所以我会去什么都读。

I figure, you never know where the next big idea might come from, so I try to read everything.

youdao

He mentioned the Nicomachean Ethics which I have never read I don't know what that is.

他提到了《尼各马克伦理学》,一本我从没读过的书，我不知道那本书是讲什么的。

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I've explained my embarrassment about using terms that I really have no absolutely no idea of the meaning of except that I'm told what the meaning of them is in the books that I am reading, which are the same books that you're reading.

我已经解释过了，用这些我完全不知道什么意思的词,真的很尴尬，除非有人告诉我他们是什么意思,就像这本书里说的那样,而我读的这本书，也就是你们现在也在读的。

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