When demons are cast out by the apostles and sent into a herd of pigs, and the pigs go running off a cliff and die; that's one image.

第一个是魔鬼们被使徒们赶出了天界,赶到了一群猪的中间，然后那些猪就跑向了悬崖,摔死在了那里。

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So if you end up not doing well, the moral of the story is not to go running off and dropping the class, but to figure out what you did right, what you didn't do right, how to make the second paper better and the third paper stronger, again.

所以如果你们最终没有得到好成绩，这个课程不是让你们退却或是退课，但是去想想你所做的对的事，和不对的事，和怎么样让接下来的论文写得更好。

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