what would it mean to read this letter out loud in a community, not alone in your dorm room,or just by yourself,in the library?

为什么书信要在人群中大声朗读，而不是在寝室里，图书馆里一人看？

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If you're at home, you'll do it with your family, now you're in university, where do I do it, who do I go and eat with, I might be by myself at my dorm room.

如果你在家里，你会和你的家人一起，而现在你在学校里，就不知道在哪里，和谁一起去吃这顿晚餐，也许就自己一人在寝室。

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What would you like to happen if you're sharing a dorm room?

到底有什么问题

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For example, the thermostat in your dorm room.

比如,你卧室里的恒温器

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And if the other guy does tidy up, hey the room's clean, Who cares? So either way, you're not going to tidy up and you end up with a typical Yale dorm room.

要是别人打扫完了,屋子干净了,我赚了,最后谁都不去打扫寝室,寝室当然就脏了

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So I'm just guessing, having been in a few of these things over the years, that by the end of the semester, or certainly by the end of the school year, the state of the average Yale dorm room is quite disgusting.

我看啊,因为我也念过大学,期末或年末的时候,耶鲁大学多数寝室会挺脏乱的

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Maybe you don't control thermostats in your dorm room, some of you do and some of you don't probably, and maybe it doesn't work very well so it might not be a good example, but imagine a perfect thermostat that you set for a temperature and then the temperature stays the same inside the room no matter what the temperature is outside.

可能你根本就不理卧室里的恒温器,有些人去调它,有些人就置之不理,可能它压根就是坏的,所以这个例子也许并不恰当,但你还是想象一个完美运行的恒温器,你设定温度后房间里的温度就保持不变,不管外面温度是多少

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