It will just as likely be misunderstood if you read it three, four, five, or ten times, if you are not attentive to what he's saying.

仍可能误解,但就算是你读了三遍，四遍，五遍或十遍，如果你没有仔细分辨他所说的话。

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This is a problem when you consider that books in the days were not likely to be codices as they are today, but scrolls that took up quite a lot of space.

这里有点奇怪,因为考虑到那个时期的书本,和现在我们看到的抄本不同,是比较占地方的卷轴

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