Yes,it was a buy off. The employee put us at the top of the list for a table instead of making us wait like everyone else.

VOA: special.2009.10.18

and we kind of expect everyone else to speak English for us.

所以我们也会希望人们会用英语跟我们交流。

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He tried to intimidate us too much with his promise of impossible grading so that everyone took the class credit/D/fail, when we all probably ended up with As or Bs.

他经常试着吓唬我们,通过他承诺的不可能的分数等级,所以每个人都虔诚的来上课/D/不及格，当我们几乎都已As或Bs结束时。

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"I think it is important for the American people and all of us to have a genuine discussion debate as everyone has said about the strategy, the exist strategy with clarity and that is precisely what we're asking,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.17