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You have a whole hour for that
你们有一个小时
You might want to, if you have blue books sitting around
你可能愿意 如果你带蓝色的书了
You bring them
可以拿出来
I'll bring some extra white paper and a stapler,
我会拿些额外的白纸和订书器
so that, if you want you can just take some of you old paper
你愿意的话可以拿出一些旧的纸
as long as it's not pre-written on, and we just staple them together
只要没写字的就行 我们把它们钉在一起
Questions about this? Yeah. No, no, no,
关于这个的问题吗 是的 不 不 不
I didn't tell you this before,
我以前没告诉过你这个
My adviser in graduate school, I really liked him
我在毕业学校的导师 我很喜欢他
He was a medievalist, folklorist and a PhD from Chicago, University of Chicago
他是个芝加哥的中古史学家 民俗学者和哲学博士 芝加哥大学的
He never assigned a research paper of any particular length
他从未规定任何长度的论文
People always say, well how long does this have to be?
人们总是问 这个必须要写多长
Does this have to be, to be 20 pages, 30 pages, 40 pages?
一定要写 20页吗 30页 40页吗
And he said, you get your topic approved and it has to be long enough
他说 你必须要能够证明你的论题
To do your topic
必须要足够长来完成你论题的论述
And he said, if you're gonna tell me,
他又说 如果你要告诉我
I'm not trying to scurry your question,
我不是在匆匆忙忙完成你的问题
but if you want to tell me the house Is white,
但如果你告诉我这个房子是白色的
I don't care if it has green shutters,
我不管它是否有绿色的百叶窗
I don't care if it has a picket fence, I don't care what street it's on
我不管它是否有围栏 我不管它在哪条街上
If you want to tell me the house is white that can be as succinct
如果你想告诉我房子是白色的
As appropriate, at the same time the admonition that
很合适很简短 同时警告
I don't know you know anything unless you tell me
我不知道你知道什么 除非你告诉我
We don't need to suffer from diarrhea of penmanship,
我们不需要忍受书法腹泻
but it needs to be,
但是它需要这样
