If you can't read, a cook-book or a manual to repair things, you're lost in that you have to rely on someone else to, always.

如果你不能阅读，一名厨师书或手册，以修理东西，你将总是失去你必须依靠的人。

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I found a cook book.

我发现了一本烹调书！

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I had been trying to cook eggs, as I had read in some book, by burying them in the earth under a fire of sticks.

我还试过煮鸡蛋——有本书说，把鸡蛋埋在土里，再点上一把火，就可以在洞里煮蛋了。

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