I want to start my lecture today looking back to that handout I gave you -but didn't give you a discussion of--a couple of days ago, ] from that essay Good Readers and Good Writers that I quoted at the very beginning of class this term.

今天我将用几天前发给你们的,却没有进行讨论的资料，开始我们的课程，从那篇叫做“好的作家和好的读者“的文章开始,我曾在本学期课程的最开始引用过它。

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My bike was in the shop a couple of days ago,

我的自行车是几天前买的，

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I got my grades back a couple of days ago

几天前我拿到我的成绩了，

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