来自《耶鲁大学开放课程—哲学：死亡 第1集 第1集》

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  Now I say this not so much to depress the hell out of you,
  我说这些不是想吓坏你们
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  but (a) partly to warn you,
  只是警告你们一下
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  and (b) to make it clear that I believe that it's a skill.
  并且说清楚 我认为这只是种技能
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  Writing a good philosophy paper is a skill
  写一篇好哲学论文是一种技巧
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  and you can get better at it.
  并且你会越写越好
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  Consequently, most of you will get better at it.
  因此 你们中大部分人会做得越来越好
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  So let me make the following remark.
  所以 让我把下面的话说完
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  Officially, each paper--you have three five-page papers.
  三篇五页长的论文 每篇论文
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  Each paper is worth 25% of your grade, officially.
  占分数的百分之二十五 这是规定的
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  But--the remaining 25% is discussion section;
  剩下的百分之二十五是小组讨论
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  I'll get to that in a minute--
  我等一下会谈这个
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  officially, 25% of your grade is for each of the three papers.
  按规定 每一篇论文都占百分之二十五