"It doesn't surprise me because 'whatever' is in a special class, probably,"said Michael Adams, author of "Slang: The People's Poetry" and anassociate professor of English at Indiana University.

《俚语：人们的诗文》一书的作者、印地安那大学英语副教授迈克尔·亚当斯说：“我并没有感到惊讶，因为‘whatever’可能属于一类比较特殊的词。

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While he served in Senate, Adams took the lecture in University Hall to begin his part time job as Harvard's first Boylston Professor of rhetoric and oratory.

亚当斯在当参议员期间，还成为哈佛学院的第一个讲修辞和演讲术的博伊尔斯顿教授，在哈佛学院的大学堂里兼职授课。

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Kelly is working with Michael W.W. Adams, a biochemistry professor at the University of Georgia who is an expert in microbes that live in places hotter than 212 degrees Fahrenheit, the boiling point of water.

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"'Kicking ass' is acceptable vulgarity, " says Michael Adams, professor of English language at Indiana University-Bloomington and author of Slang: The People's Poetry.

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