When I was in the prison, I did not see him. So I asked the warden to help me give him a piece of paper where I wrote: you used to be very busy, but now you can have time to master a foreign language.

有一次，我应邀到监狱为犯人们演讲，没有见到他，就请监狱长带给他一张纸条，上面写了一句话：“平日都忙，你现在终于获得了学好一门外语的上好机会。”

youdao

You don't really want to know how long ago that was, but to give you a rough idea — I wrote it while wearing my bellbottoms.

你不需要知道这是多久之前的事，但我能给你一个大概时间---那时我还穿着喇叭裤呢。

youdao

I'd done a lot of creative writing in college, but it was all personal experience, and they always want you to write what you know, and I never really branched out and wrote characters.

我在上大学的时候曾经写过很多，但那都是很私人的，而我写的总是我知道的事，从来没有写过虚拟的人物。

youdao

Now that I've written sqrt, I can just use it anywhere I want in the code. You've got to rely on the fact that I wrote it correctly, but you can basically suppress the details of how it's used.

就是忽略细节,既然我已经编写了sqrt函数,我可以在代码的任何地方使用它，你完全可以依靠,我已经编写的这个函数。

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So he wrote this piece - and, by the way, if you try to look it up now, you can't because Obama and his team have scrubbed it from the internet, so you can't find it, but I want to share with you part of what he wrote.

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