This meant that people in Chicago liked to brag or talk about how great their city was.

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So, you may or may not know this about your TAs, but this is a pretty competitive group of TAs we have this year, and they like to brag about how smart their recitation is, how good questions they're getting in the recitation section.

不知道你们是否知道这与你们的助教有关，但是今年我们的助教们,都非常有才，而且他们都想向别人炫耀一下，自己的讨论课做得有多漂亮，回答的问题有多好。

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Frost says at the time that he's publishing A Boy's Will, to a friend: You mustn't take me too seriously if I now proceed to brag a bit about my exploits as a poet.

他在发表第一本书时对一个朋友说：,不要对我太认真,如果我现在吹嘘自己已是一位诗人。

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