All I said was if he didn't get out and start selling a few cars instead of idling around all day, he might find himself looking for a new job.

我只是说，要是他不出去卖几辆车，而成天无所事事的话，他可能就要去找一份新工作了。

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I said to him, "Tyler, why not join in our discussion instead of having one of your own?"

我对他说：“泰勒，与其自己另外探讨，何不加入我们的讨论呢？”

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"When I don't hand in homework, all I get is a short message instead of real concern," she said.

“我不交作业，只会收到一条短信，而非真心的担忧。”她说。

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There's absolutely no reason I couldn't have switched it around and said that instead the pi orbitals form between these atoms instead of those first atoms I showed.

我完全没有理由,不能把它转过来,现在π键在这些原子间,而不是我开始展示的那些原子间。

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Instead, he paused for a moment and said, "I would marry a donkey " and a big bag of peanuts."

不过出乎意料的是，他想了一会说，“我想娶一只驴子,和一大包花生“

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stay there because who knows, there are 20 million other things I might have said, but instead let me give you the opportunity to ask questions that you would like to raise, particularly if you want to ask about how they fought, as long as we have a phalanx here we might as well use it if we need too.

你们先别走,因为,谁知道还有什么呢,我还有一肚子的东西想给你们讲,但最好还是留给你们,一些提问的机会,尤其是关于战斗的问题,讲台上正好有一列方阵可以用来讲解

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