主妇带着一种近乎绝望的心情，谈到了做饭的问题，这只是形式上的谈论。

The goodwife touched, with a perishing hope, and rather as a matter of form, upon the subject of cooking.

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你还可以这样来谈论你期待或者激动的心情：I can’t wait .

You can also talk about your sense of excitement or anticipation by saying I can’t wait . . . / I can’t wait . . . e.g.

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甚至最高超的专家都没有发现男性患者的情绪问题，认为抑郁的男人也会像抑郁的女人那样公开的谈论糟糕的心情。

Even the most skilled psychologists and psychiatrists missed their male patients' mood disorders, believing that depressed men, like depressed women, would talk openly about feeling blue.

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