你可以谈论它，问它问题，甚至与它辩论。

You can talk to it and ask it questions, or even argue with it.

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这位先生发现了一只很大的黑鸟，并问它几个问题，乌鸦用一个词回答他：“Nevermore”(决不再)。

The man finds a large black bird and asks it questions. The raven answers with a single word: "Nevermore."

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所以，每当遇到困难和危机时，我都会问它教会了我什么？

So, ask every failure—this is what I do with every failure, every crisis, every difficult time—I say, what is this here to teach me?

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Lane looked faintly interrupted. "Why what?" " Why did you think it was going to go over like a lead balloon?"

莱恩微弱的问，什么为什么“,为什么你认为它像一个领头气球“

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That is to say, if something causes literature, there must be some sort of authority behind it and therefore we find ourselves asking, "What is an author?"

即是说，如果文学有缘由的，它的背后一定存在作者,所以我们会问，“作者是谁？“

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By the way, when I say there's 10 Newtons acting this way, you might say, "What about gravity? What about the table?"

顺便提一下我说有 10 牛的作用力,你也许会问,"那重力呢,桌子对它的力呢"

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