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Why them and not somebody else?"

为什么不是别人而偏偏是他们
Until I came upon a brilliant solution

直到我从另外一名学者那里
that another scholar presents to us,

得知完美的答案之前
all I could do was tell jokes. I remember,

我只能用将笑话的方式回答他们我记得
way before you guys were born,

在你们出生前的时候
there was a TV show run by Sid Caesar,

有一档西德·恺撒策划的电视节目
and one of the characters that repeatedly showed up

节目里有一个角色反复出现
on this thing was a kind of a comic

类似一个从德国或者
German/Austrian professor of seemingly everything,

澳大利亚来的万事通教授
and then Carl Reiner would

每次节目卡尔·雷纳
interview him on the topic

都会向他介绍下
that was allegedly the topic of the day,

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