有人问他为什么“去了几个月不回来”。

He was asked why he had "tarried away so many months".

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有一天，我去到鲍勃的房间，问他为什么散布错误的信息。

One day I stopped by Bob's room and asked why he was spreading the wrong information.

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我问他为什么。他回答时看起来有点困窘。

I asked him why. He looked a little sheepish when he answered.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

Now when asked by the hardest workers why "each of the laborers received every man a penny," the householder replies, "Take that which is thine own and go thy way.

当那些最辛苦的工人问户主为什么“每个人,都得到了一便士呢“他回答，拿着你们的东西走人吧。

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Yes. He asked if I was going to talk about how decisions were made about what to include in the New Testament and what not to include in the New Testament.

会，他问我会不会讨论,为什么有些书卷被收入新约,有些被排除在外。

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Why does it matter what family I'm from?" he asks Diomedes.

为什么来自的家族会那么重要？“，他问狄俄墨得斯。

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