But why pick up a fallen old man so simple things, in the eyes of so many people are very difficult? Admittedly such examples have become common in the life.

但为什么扶起一个摔倒的老人这么简单的事情，在这么多人的眼里却是很困难的呢？诚然生活中这样的例子已经屡见不鲜。

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I'm afraid things are not so simple.

事情怕不这么简单。

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But things are not so simple now.

可现在事情并不是那么简单的。

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Just simple things so that way they get to understand what it means to be an American student."

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So we have associated with simple things, a set of operations.

鉴于我们已经学过，一些简单的操作。

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The "I have" pattern is very simple but it's great. Because you can use it to show so many things.

I have”句型非常简单但却非常好用。你可以用它来表示大大小小各种情况。

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It points to a perspective one comes by later in life, when so many simple things are harder to do and enjoy, that young people who complain are out of place when they do so.

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So, simple things that even aren't necessarily to do with the current tax administration, the fear that taxes are going to go up, but having a revocable living trust, for example, to hold your assets to protect you from probate.

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But of course, the film never makes things so simple, and so there is a glaring instance when even the carrot produces an unpredictable and very bad outcome.

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