We devote between 30 to 40 percent of our conversation time to doing just that, according to the study, which did not focus on boasting specifically but on sharing things about ourselves.

该研究表明，我们30%到40%的谈话时间都花在自己身上了。该研究关注的并非自夸炫耀而是与他人分享自我。

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You and your speaking partners should converse more broadly than just talking about IELTS questions but you should still include IELTS questions in your conversation time;

你和你的口语搭档应当进行更加广泛的交谈，而不仅仅局限于雅思的问题上面，但是你仍然应该在对话时间中涵盖雅思问题；

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"So far,we have had a constructive conversation and my hope is that by the time the chairman and I meet on Wednesday that we have made sufficient progress and we can start actually seeing a structure that would be in place."

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