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[Assistant] You'll never be able to lead if you don't set an example worth following.


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[Assistant] You'll never be able to lead if you don't set an example worth following.


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[Assistant] You'll never be able to lead if you don't set an example worth following.


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[Assistant] Although it is not a bad thing in itself, in a lot of cases, many people are watching too much television.


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[Assistant] In a lot of cases, many people are watching too much television.


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[Assistant] In a lot of cases, many people are watching too much television.


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[Assistant] I always buy the English language books I come across at bookstores. But since I never read them, all they do is pile up.


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[Assistant] I always buy the English language books I come across at bookstores, but since I never read them, all they do is pile up.


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[Assistant] I always buy the English language books I come across at bookstores, but since I never read them, all they do is pile up.


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[Assistant] If your license exceeds its validity period, then you can be issued with a new license in the following way.


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[Assistant] If your license exceeds its validity period, then you can be issued with a new license in the following way.


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[Assistant] If your license exceeds its validity period, then you can be issued with a new license in the following way.


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[Assistant] The stories, which you read in this book, deal with some of the many problems which face young people.


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[Assistant] The stories, which you read in this book, deal with some of the many problems which face young people.


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[Assistant] The stories, which you read in this book, deal with some of the many problems which face young people.


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[Assistant] The three organizations are the International Monetary Fund, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.


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[Assistant] The three organizations are the International Monetary Fund, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.


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[Assistant] The three organizations are the International Monetary Fund, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.


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[Assistant] A mailbag from a single sender addressed to one recipient. As the name suggests, it's for delivering a bag of printed matter.


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[Assistant] A mailbag from a single sender addressed to one recipient. As the name suggests, it's for delivering a bag of printed matter.


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[Assistant] A mailbag from a single sender addressed to one recipient. As the name suggests, it's for delivering a bag of printed matter.


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[Assistant] There was, however, a need for food to be carried from the bowl to the mouth, and chopsticks came along to meet that need.


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[Assistant] There was, however, a need for food to be carried from the bowl to the mouth, and chopsticks came along to meet that need.


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[Assistant] There was, however, a need for food to be carried from the bowl to the mouth. And Chopsticks came along to meet that need.


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[Assistant] I'm going to Hawaii next week, so I have to go and exchange some yen for dollars at the bank.


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[Assistant] So I have to go and exchange some yen for dollars at the bank.


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[Assistant] I'm going to Hawaii next week, so I have to go and exchange some yen for dollars at the bank.


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[Assistant] I think that if we do that, we're making a big, big mistake.


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[Assistant] At the risk of sticking my neck out, I think that if we do that, we're making a big, big mistake.


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[Assistant] At the risk of sticking my neck out, I think that if we do that we're making a big, big mistake.


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[Assistant] The command of communication skills in multiple languages is essential to any company providing goods and services on the world market.


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[Assistant] The command of communication skills in multiple languages is essential to any company providing goods and services on the world market.


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[Assistant] The command of communication skills in multiple languages is essential to any company providing goods and services on the world market.


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[Assistant] When the frame is finished, the spider fixes lines of silk across it, just like the spokes of a bicycle wheel.


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[Assistant] When the frame is finished, the spider fixes lines of silk across it, just like the spokes of a bicycle wheel.


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[Assistant] When the frame is finished, the spider fixes lines of silk across it, just like the spokes of a bicycle wheel.


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[Assistant] Of course you'll catch a cold if you fall asleep under the katatsu. You have to learn to take care of yourself.


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[Assistant] Of course you'll catch a cold if you fall asleep under the katatsu. You have to learn to take care of yourself.


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[Assistant] Of course you'll catch a cold if you fall asleep under the katatsu. You have to learn to take care of yourself.


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[Assistant] To persuade somebody that your recommendation is reasonable and wise, you have to give reasons and quote known examples and authorities.


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[Assistant] To persuade somebody that your recommendation is reasonable and wise, you have to give reasons and quote known examples and authorities.


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[Assistant] To persuade somebody that your recommendation is reasonable and wise, you have to give reasons and quote known examples and authorities.


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[Assistant] Since their first appearance on Earth, men have gathered information and have attempted to pass useful ideas to other men.


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[Assistant] Since their first appearance on Earth, men have gathered information and have attempted to pass useful ideas to other men.


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[Assistant] Since their first appearance on Earth, men have gathered information and have attempted to pass useful ideas to other men.


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[Assistant] In Olympic competitions, a gold medal is for first place, a silver medal for second, and a bronze medal is for third place.


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[Assistant] In Olympic competitions, a gold medal is for first place, a silver medal for second, and a bronze medal is for third place.


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[Assistant] In Olympic competitions, a gold medal is for first place, a silver medal for second, and a bronze medal is for third place.


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[Assistant] What I noticed most about my Canadian high school, however, was the great respect shown by students toward their teachers.


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[Assistant] What I noticed most about my Canadian high school, however, was the great respect shown by students toward their teachers.


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[Assistant] What I noticed most about my Canadian high school, however, was the great respect shown by students toward their teachers.


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[Assistant] A man who angers easily should learn to count to ten. It calms trouble like pouring oil on troubled waters.


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[Assistant] A man who angers easily should learn to count to ten. It calms trouble like pouring oil on troubled waters.


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[Assistant] A man who angers easily should learn to count to ten. It calms trouble like pouring oil on troubled waters.


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[Assistant] But she had not expected to cross an ocean, enter a new romantic sounding country, and find herself in exactly the same position.


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[Assistant] But she had not expected to cross an ocean, enter a new romantic sounding country, and find herself in exactly the same position.


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[Assistant] Dreams flew out of that box when it was opened. Dreams of secrets written in disappearing ink and of overwhelming odors.


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[Assistant] Dreams flew out of that box when it was opened. Dreams of secrets written in disappearing ink and of overwhelming odors.


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[Assistant] Dreams flew out of that box when it was opened. Dreams of secrets written in disappearing ink and of overwhelming odors.


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[Assistant] Several years ago, in the course of being interviewed for a job, I was introduced to a competitor for the position.


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[Assistant] Several years ago, in the course of being interviewed for a job, I was introduced to a competitor for the position.


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[Assistant] Several years ago, in the course of being interviewed for a job, I was introduced to a competitor for the position.


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[Assistant] Tony realized that if he hired another crew, got more customers, and did the job quicker and sloppier, he could make more money.


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[Assistant] Tony realized that if he hired another crew, got more customers, and did the job quicker and sloppier, he could make more money.


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[Assistant] Tony realized that if he hired another crew, got more customers and did the job quicker and sloppier, he could make more money.


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[Assistant] When you start taking medicine, it begins working on symptoms like pain right away. But that doesn't mean the ulcer heals right away.


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[Assistant] When you start taking medicine, it begins working on symptoms like pain right away. But that doesn't mean the ulcer heals right away.


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[Assistant] When you start taking medicine, it begins working on symptoms like pain right away. But that doesn't mean the ulcer heals right away.


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[Assistant] The great cause of stress for men is work, while for women, human relationships come at the top of the list.


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[Assistant] The great cause of stress for men is work, while for women, human relationships come at the top of the list.


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[Assistant] The great cause of stress for men is work, while for women, human relationships come at the top of the list.


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[Assistant] A bookstore in that location wouldn't make enough money to survive.


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[Assistant] A bookstore in that location wouldn't make enough money to survive.


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[Assistant] A bookstore in that location wouldn't make enough money to survive.


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[Assistant] Gimme a chance to make you proud of me. Gimme a chance to make you proud of me.


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[Assistant] The child had no overcoat on although it was very cold.


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[Assistant] The child had no overcoat on, although it was very cold.


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[Assistant] The child had no overcoat on although it was very cold.


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[Assistant] As more paper money came into use the value fell.


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[Assistant] As more paper money came into use, the value fell.


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[Assistant] As more paper money came into use, the value fell.


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[Assistant] According to my calculation, she should be in India by now.


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[Assistant] According to my calculation, she should be in India by now.


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[Assistant] According to my calculation, she should be in India by now.


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[Assistant] He wishes he had gone to the theater last night. He wishes he had gone to the theater last night.


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[Assistant] He devoted the last ten years of his life to writing his autobiography.


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[Assistant] He devoted the last ten years of his life to writing his autobiography.


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[Assistant] He devoted the last ten years of his life to writing his autobiography.


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[Assistant] There are not many books on these shelves. There are not many books on these shelves.


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[Assistant] Nobody understood why the elephant suddenly turned on its owner.


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[Assistant] Nobody understood why the elephant suddenly turned on its owner.


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[Assistant] Nobody understood why the elephant suddenly turned on its owner.


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[Assistant] It took us half an hour to set up the tent. It took us half an hour to set up the tent.


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[Assistant] I have two dogs, one is white and the other is black.


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[Assistant] I have two dogs, one is white and the other is black.


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[Assistant] I have two dogs, one is white and the other is black.


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[Assistant] Water is liquid. When it freezes, it becomes solid.


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[Assistant] Water is liquid. When it freezes, it becomes solid.


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[Assistant] Water is liquid. When it freezes, it becomes solid.


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[Assistant] Hey, I may have no money, but I still have my pride.


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[Assistant] Hey, I may have no money, but I still have my pride.


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[Assistant] Hey, I may have no money, but I still have my pride.


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[Assistant] A group of young men are playing handball in the playground.


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[Assistant] The old houses were torn down to make room for a supermarket.


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[Assistant] The old houses were torn down to make room for a supermarket.


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[Assistant] This book is for all students whose native language is not Japanese.


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[Assistant] This book is for all students whose native language is not Japanese.


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[Assistant] This book is for all students whose native language is not Japanese.


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[Assistant] She was more beautiful than all the others. She was more beautiful than all the others.


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[Assistant] Don't be afraid of making mistakes when you speak English.


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[Assistant] This problem is too difficult for primary school children to solve.


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[Assistant] This problem is too difficult for primary school children to solve.


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[Assistant] This problem is too difficult for primary school children to solve.


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[Assistant] You've worked hard for months, and have certainly earned a holiday.


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[Assistant] You've worked hard for months, and have certainly earned a holiday.


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[Assistant] You've worked hard for months, and have certainly earned a holiday.


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[Assistant] There must be a way to arrive at a diplomatic solution.


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[Assistant] There must be a way to arrive at a diplomatic solution.


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[Assistant] Ebola spreads from person to person through bodily fluids.


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[Assistant] Ebola spreads from person to person through bodily fluids.


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[Assistant] Ebola spreads from person to person through bodily fluids.


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[Assistant] This airplane is capable of carrying 40 passengers at a time.


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[Assistant] This airplane is capable of carrying 40 passengers at a time.


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[Assistant] This airplane is capable of carrying 40 passengers at a time.


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[Assistant] He does nothing but complain from morning till night. He does nothing but complain from morning till night.


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[Assistant] Would you like to have a drink before dinner?


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[Assistant] English is a universal language and is used all over the world.


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[Assistant] English is a universal language and is used all over the world.


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[Assistant] I can't believe your parents let you come here by yourself.


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[Assistant] Plastics have taken the place of many conventional materials.


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[Assistant] Plastics have taken the place of many conventional materials.


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[Assistant] Plastics have taken the place of many conventional materials.


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[Assistant] The date of the festival coincides with that of the exam.


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[Assistant] The date of the festival coincides with that of the exam.


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[Assistant] The date of the festival coincides with that of the exam.


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[Assistant] A trip to America was equivalent to a two-year salary for her.


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[Assistant] A trip to America was equivalent to a two-year salary for her.


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[Assistant] A trip to America was equivalent to a two-year salary for her.


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[Assistant] It makes sense to pay off your credit card balance every month.


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[Assistant] You shouldn't share too much private information on the social networks.


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[Assistant] You shouldn't share too much private information on the social networks.


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[Assistant] You shouldn't share too much private information on the social networks.


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[Assistant] You had better take an umbrella with you today. You had better take an umbrella with you today.


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[Assistant] Is this ladder strong enough to bear my weight? Is this ladder strong enough to bear my weight?


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[Assistant] When she saw that they had no schools, she started one.


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[Assistant] When she saw that they had no schools, she started one.


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[Assistant] Sir, that CD is available only by special order.


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[Assistant] Sir, that CD is available only by special order.


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[Assistant] Sir, that CD is available only by special order.


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[Assistant] I should have known better than to call him. I should have known better than to call him.


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[Assistant] I do not like tea, so generally I drink coffee for breakfast.


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[Assistant] I do not like tea, so generally I drink coffee for breakfast.


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[Assistant] I do not like tea, so generally I drink coffee for breakfast.


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[Assistant] Can you please tell me your name once more? Can you please tell me your name once more?


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[Assistant] Islam first reached China about the middle of the 7th century.


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[Assistant] Islam first reached China about the middle of the 7th century.


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[Assistant] Islam first reached China about the middle of the 7th century.


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[Assistant] If he is innocent, it follows that his wife is guilty.


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[Assistant] If he is innocent, it follows that his wife is guilty.


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[Assistant] If he is innocent, it follows that his wife is guilty.


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[Assistant] More money for education will spur our economic growth.


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[Assistant] More money for education will spur our economic growth.


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[Assistant] More money for education will spur our economic growth.


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[Assistant] 150 people entered the marathon race. 150 people entered the marathon race.


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[Assistant] Do I have to take off my shoes here? Do I have to take off my shoes here?


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[Assistant] Mary is not poor. On the contrary, she is quite rich.


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[Assistant] Mary is not poor. On the contrary, she is quite rich.


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[Assistant] Mary is not poor. On the contrary, she is quite rich.


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[Assistant] Apart from rainy days, I always ride my bike to work.


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[Assistant] Apart from rainy days, I always ride my bike to work.


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[Assistant] Apart from rainy days, I always ride my bike to work.


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[Assistant] There is nothing worse than doing something in a half-hearted manner.


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[Assistant] There is nothing worse than doing something in a half-hearted manner.


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[Assistant] There is nothing worse than doing something in a half-hearted manner.


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[Assistant] I go to the office by bicycle, except on rainy days.


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[Assistant] I go to the office by bicycle except on rainy days.


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[Assistant] I go to the office by bicycle, except on rainy days.


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[Assistant] The average height of the girls in class is over 155 centimeters.


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[Assistant] The average height of the girls in class is over 155 centimeters.


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[Assistant] Everyone is anxious to know what has become of the former champion. Everyone is anxious to know what has become of the former champion.


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[Assistant] Will you please explain the meaning of this sentence to me?


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[Assistant] You go first. I was planning to!


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[Assistant] You're tired! Pah! Ugh! My tire popped too!


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[Assistant] So you're passionate? How passionate? What actions does your passion lead you to do?


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[Assistant] If the heart doesn't find a perfect rhyme with the head, then your passion means nothing.


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[Assistant] The OKR framework cultivates the madness.


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[Assistant] The chemistry contained inside it. It gives us an environment for risk, for trust, where failing is not a viral offence. And when you have that sort of structure and environment, and the right people, magic is round the corner.


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[Assistant] The more difficult the questions are, the less likely I'll be able to answer them.


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[Assistant] Robert was so busy he had to turn down an invitation to play golf.


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[Assistant] For instance, what would you have done if you were in my place?


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[Assistant] Though she was only 12 years old, Susan knew how to make a living.


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[Assistant] Tom has always done well in every job he has had.


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[Assistant] We should bear in mind what is called wisdom is not a mere item of knowledge.


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[Assistant] I felt relieved when all the troubles were taken care of.


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[Assistant] If I were to be born again, I would be a musician.


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[Assistant] It's easy to lose track of time when you are in Las Vegas.


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[Assistant] This jet travels about three times as fast as the speed of sound.


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[Assistant] In this secret code, each number stands for a letter of the alphabet.


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[Assistant] The young man saved the girl from a bunch of hoodlums.


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[Assistant] I can't think of the right words with which to express my thanks.


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[Assistant] I wish I could go with you, but as it is, I can't.


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[Assistant] The explanation below was achieved by comparing and contrasting a variety of different theories.


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[Assistant] How long does it take to go from here to the Hilton Hotel?


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[Assistant] This meeting is a waste of time. Everybody is just talking in vague theoretical terms.


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[Assistant] If you put more tea leaves into the pot, the tea will taste better.


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[Assistant] Geometry, about which I know nothing, seems like a very dull subject.


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[Assistant] We can know the past, but the future we can only feel.


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[Assistant] When she returned home from school, she began to help her mother in the kitchen.


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[Assistant] Now that you are a high school student, you are responsible for what you do.


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[Assistant] I missed a step on the stairs and I'm afraid I sprained my ankle.


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[Assistant] The couple doesn't fight often these days, but they used to a lot.


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[Assistant] This'll be a good opportunity for me to use my language skills to my advantage.


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[Assistant] Then we visited Washington DC, the capital of the United States of America.


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[Assistant] We will only consider placing an order if you reduce the price by 5%.


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[Assistant] Never did I dream that I would take first place in the piano contest.


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[Assistant] Air as well as sunlight is, needless to say, indispensable to our daily life.


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[Assistant] What is still better is that the house has a beautiful garden.


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[Assistant] It is better to take your time than to hurry and make mistakes.


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[Assistant] The number of Vietnamese students returning after life abroad has been increasing as of late.


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[Assistant] That's the mindset of a previous time. The current generation doesn't think that way.


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[Assistant] The street lined with trees provided a vista of the sea.


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[Assistant] If he had trained himself harder at that time, he would be healthier now.


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[Assistant] The doctor is looking for medicine that is effective for this illness.


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[Assistant] In the London Underground, there is a warning to mind the gap when boarding the train.


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[Assistant] On arriving at the station, I went to see my uncle at his office.


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[Assistant] The number of students going abroad to study is increasing each year.


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[Assistant] In most Japanese companies only a few executives have a room to themselves.


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[Assistant] The English used in the composition is too good. She can't have written it herself.


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[Assistant] It is so good to be able to speak a number of foreign languages.


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[Assistant] The victim is thought to have taken a large quantity of poison by mistake.


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[Assistant] I will have been to Vancouver three times if I go once again this summer.


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[Assistant] I'd like to spend my holidays reading history books or classics.


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[Assistant] That job was not very interesting, but on the other hand, it was well paid.


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[Assistant] Feeling the house shake, I ran out into the yard at the back of the house.


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[Assistant] Should he be given another chance? He would do his best.


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[Assistant] Malicious gossip spreads like wildfire. I guess that's why they say bad news travels fast.


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[Assistant] One sunny day in April, I went out for a walk.


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[Assistant] To know a language is one thing, and to teach it is another.


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[Assistant] On arriving at the station, I called a friend of mine.


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[Assistant] Whichever way you may take, you can get to the station in about 10 minutes.


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[Assistant] Working part time at a supermarket, I found that some customers were polite, whereas others weren't.


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[Assistant] I want to study abroad even if my parents are against it.


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[Assistant] Once you've got into a bad habit, it can be difficult to get out of it.


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[Assistant] The teacher had her eye on me because she thought I was cheating.


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[Assistant] In the US, you usually have to show identification in order to buy alcohol.


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[Assistant] The industrialist found a wealthy financier to help him weather the storm which was inevitable.


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[Assistant] The lady that is speaking to that boy is his teacher.


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[Assistant] The engineer seeks not so much to know nature as to make use of it.


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[Assistant] Nick can speak Portuguese very well. That's because he's been studying it for five years.


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[Assistant] In the car on the way home, he was making plans for the next day.


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[Assistant] Students are supposed to turn in reports at the end of the school year.


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[Assistant] To give up smoking is not easy, but you should for the sake of your health.


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[Assistant] To begin with, the funds are not sufficient for running a grocery store.


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[Assistant] It was obvious that the driver had not been careful enough.


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[Assistant] He got angry because he thought that everyone was trying to make a fool of him.


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[Assistant] He was a benevolent old man who volunteered to mow his neighbor's lawns for free.


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[Assistant] We've talked over this matter in detail for half an hour already. Let's finish it off.


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[Assistant] When we were on the brink of starvation, they saved our lives.


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[Assistant] If she should come to Japan, Jane would be very happy.


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[Assistant] Those brothers are both over six feet in height. That's indeed tall.


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[Assistant] It's a strange story, but every word of it is true.


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[Assistant] Cassette tapes seem to have given way to compact discs in popularity.


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[Assistant] May Day is also a festival day for the workers in the world.


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[Assistant] Some scientists predict that the world oil reserves will be used up within a century.


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[Assistant] All of us are connected with the past and the future, as well as the present.


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[Assistant] New York is one of the cities that I previously thought that I wanted to visit.


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[Assistant] When it began to rain, she told her son to take in the washing.


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[Assistant] I shall graduate from middle school in one and a half years.


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[Assistant] Mary claims that the handbag had been a present from her husband.


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[Assistant] Deal is in the southeast of UK, about 110 kilometers away from London.


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[Assistant] If you go by bus, you can get there in about one third of the time.


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[Assistant] I may have seen that film before, but I can hardly remember it.


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[Assistant] In reply to your request, we offer you an extra discount of 5% on this order.


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[Assistant] My friends always say I'm too calm, but my family always says I'm too annoying.


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[Assistant] I am sure I met him somewhere, but I do not remember who he is.


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[Assistant] Last night my house was robbed while I was still awake.


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[Assistant] It would help us if you would reserve the following hotel during our conference.


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[Assistant] After the rain had let up a bit, we made a dash for the car.


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[Assistant] If anything, my new job is harder than my old one.


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[Assistant] I usually gas up the car at this service station.


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[Assistant] Although it is a very difficult task, I will do my best.


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[Assistant] I have been waiting for your reply but have not heard from you.


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[Assistant] The house is too big for us, and what is more, it is too expensive.


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[Assistant] We have lots of bread, and as for butter, we have more than enough.


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[Assistant] As there was no bus service, we had to walk all the way to the station.


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[Assistant] In the justice system of the United States, there are 12 people on a jury.


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[Assistant] If you go anywhere, you had better tell your mother first.


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[Assistant] When you compare this dictionary with that one, you can easily see which is better.


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[Assistant] All the coaches of the train were packed into capacity 10 minutes before it started.


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[Assistant] On behalf of the company, I would like to express our hearty thanks to you all.


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[Assistant] If it had not been for your help, I would have lost the game.


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[Assistant] This textbook, having been printed in haste, has a lot of printing mistakes.


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[Assistant] He said that he could smell something burning, and that the telephones weren't working.


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[Assistant] Cancer can be cured easily if it is found in its first phase.


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[Assistant] Tell those people to back off so that the helicopter can land.


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[Assistant] If I had known about the plan, I could have helped him.


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[Assistant] I love the taste when I bite into a juicy peach.


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[Assistant] The singer is famous not only in Korea, but also in Europe.


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[Assistant] These shoes are expensive, and what is more, they are too small.


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[Assistant] I didn't like rock music at first, but it soon grew on me.


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[Assistant] This medicine must not be placed within reach of children.


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[Assistant] This factory uses an integrated manufacturing system standardized from parts on through to finish products.


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[Assistant] Chris bought her a present and bravely gave it to her.


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[Assistant] Go easy on Bob, you know he has been through a rough period recently.


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[Assistant] I need not have watered the flowers. Just after I finished, it started raining.


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[Assistant] I was afraid it would not work out well, and sure enough it failed.


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[Assistant] He was surprised to find the great artist's masterpiece hung on the wall upside down.


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[Assistant] I admit this may not be the best way of doing it.


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[Assistant] Hmm, I have a feeling I'm going to get lost whichever road I take.


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[Assistant] It is not good manners to laugh at someone when he makes mistakes.


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[Assistant] My drawer had been tampered with, and some of my papers were missing.


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[Assistant] Once you skip a lesson, it's hard to catch up with your classmates.


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[Assistant] We cannot tell a good person from a bad one by looks alone.


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[Assistant] There are five computers in the house, but two of them aren't any use.


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[Assistant] The doctor told Mr. Smith to give up smoking if he wanted to live long.


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[Assistant] A lot of bicycles are illegally parked in front of the station.


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[Assistant] We will interview two people so we can hear both sides of this question.


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[Assistant] I managed to catch the 8 o'clock train by running all the way to the station.


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[Assistant] You need your parent's permission if you are going to apply for that.


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[Assistant] You should make sure of the facts before you write something.


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[Assistant] Our views are in agreement with theirs as to the essential points.


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[Assistant] This seems expensive, but it's so durable it will pay in the long run.


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[Assistant] Brian, this is the restaurant where your father and I had our first date.


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[Assistant] I don't object to your going out to work, but who will look after the children?


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[Assistant] You'll get a clear picture with this antenna on the roof.


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[Assistant] I've warned you over and over again not to do it.


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[Assistant] Bob will play the leading role for the first time in the next school festival.


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[Assistant] We need to recognize it in order to strengthen our business activities.


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[Assistant] On his way home, Steve met a man who he thought was a Chinese.


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[Assistant] Try to speak English as often as possible if you want to improve your English.


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[Assistant] Tom is more hardworking than any other student in his class.


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[Assistant] The doctor advised me to take up some sport to stay in shape.


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[Assistant] I ran into an old friend of mine outside the station.


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[Assistant] A Dachshund is a dog from Germany with a very long body and short legs.


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[Assistant] This novel is by far more interesting than that one.


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[Assistant] You should treat this information in the main body of the text, not in the notes.


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[Assistant] Hikers need to carry a compass with them to find their way through the woods.


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[Assistant] In another six months, you will be able to speak German fluently.


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[Assistant] This novel describes the life of the Italian as it was a hundred years ago.


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[Assistant] Newspapers, magazines and newscasts tell what is going on in the world.


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[Assistant] I got my driver's license on the second time I tried to pass the driver's test.


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[Assistant] My year in Africa was a very educational experience in many ways.


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[Assistant] Now that you are in Italy, you must absolutely see Naples.


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[Assistant] It is dangerous to wield an edged tool in such a way.


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[Assistant] A ball hit the back of my head while I was playing soccer.


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[Assistant] If I were in your place, I wouldn't do such a thing.


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[Assistant] If we read this book, we will be able to understand this country better.


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[Assistant] The post office is a good five kilometers away from here.


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[Assistant] We moved into this house last month, but we still haven't settled down.


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[Assistant] The committee rejected the proposal on the ground that it was impractical.


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[Assistant] You do such a thing once too often and get punished.


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[Assistant] The loss of money made it impossible for him to go abroad.


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[Assistant] If it had not been for your umbrella, I would have been drenched to the skin.


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[Assistant] Upon arriving at the airport, he made a phone call to his wife.


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[Assistant] It is difficult to keep up a conversation with someone who only says yes and no.


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[Assistant] You have only to stand in front of the door. It will open by itself.


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[Assistant] I left some scallions out on the veranda for too long and they dried out.


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[Assistant] This is a secret just between you and me, so don't let it slip out.


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[Assistant] The most important thing in the Olympics is not to win, but to participate.


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[Assistant] If my house were a mansion, I would invite everyone I know to my birthday party.


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[Assistant] All the houses in this neighborhood look so much alike that I can't tell them apart.


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[Assistant] A pick is a long handled tool used for breaking up hard ground surfaces.


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[Assistant] In order to get the coconut milk, you must first crack the coconut open.


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[Assistant] As it is written in simple English, this book is easy to read.


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[Assistant] At any rate, I'll go to college after graduating from high school.


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[Assistant] There's no use for plastic supermarket bags aside from putting trash in them.


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[Assistant] The population of Wellington is only about one fortieth that of Tokyo.


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[Assistant] But today, a lot of young people are following her example.


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[Assistant] Running as fast as I could, I was able to catch up with my friend.


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[Assistant] Social unrest may come about as a result of the endless rising of prices.


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[Assistant] The fact that nowadays fewer men smoke is a headache for the Chinese tobacco industry.


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[Assistant] On my way home, I fell asleep on the train and rode past my station.


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[Assistant] The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.


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[Assistant] Before buying anything, you had better ask yourself whether you cannot do without it.


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[Assistant] I guess I've reached the age where I have to dispense advice to my underlings.


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[Assistant] The construction of a highway will contribute to the growth of the suburbs.


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[Assistant] After that, I left, but then I realized that I forgot my backpack at their house.


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[Assistant] I know you worked very hard on it, but still I'm not satisfied with your report.


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[Assistant] Once I learned what to listen for, I came to appreciate modern jazz.


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[Assistant] Bob is an Australian, but he speaks Korean as if it were his mother tongue.


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[Assistant] The airplane flies at a speed of 500 kilometers per hour.


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[Assistant] Before forks and chopsticks, people usually ate food with a piece of flat bread.


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[Assistant] Regarding the matter of house rent, I have come to terms with him.


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[Assistant] Turn to the right at the corner and you will find it on your left.


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[Assistant] It is without justification that money has been called one of the greatest inventions of man.


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[Assistant] There are no clean glasses in the kitchen. We have used them all.


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[Assistant] Canada is a good place to go if it's your first experience living abroad.


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[Assistant] If you had been a little more patient, you would have succeeded.


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[Assistant] The fence was not high enough to keep the wolves out.


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[Assistant] John did not know how to explain to his wife that he had to quit his job.


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[Assistant] The first virtue of a painting is to be a feast for the eyes.


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[Assistant] French is spoken in parts of Italy as well as in France.


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[Assistant] Cows are more useful than any other animal in this country.


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[Assistant] Max explained to Julie why he could not go to her farewell party.


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[Assistant] Mr. and Mrs. Williams adopted a child whose parents were dead.


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[Assistant] All that you have to do to get a good seat is to leave early.


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[Assistant] It was careless of her to leave the door unlocked when she went out


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[Assistant] We've come this far, so we can't stop now. I don't want to backslide.


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[Assistant] If there is somebody to back me up, the business will be successful.


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[Assistant] If it had not been for your advice, I would have failed in my business.


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[Assistant] They came to terms with each other on how to start a joint venture.


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[Assistant] The train was held up for two hours on account of the snowstorm.


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[Assistant] A great many people were opposed to gene therapy in terms of ethics.


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[Assistant] Don't get so irritated. Rushing things will cost you more time in the end.


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[Assistant] The official was suspected of accepting bribes from the construction companies


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[Assistant] It is easier to sympathize with sorrow than to sympathize with joy.


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[Assistant] He was in the middle of a funny story when he stopped to answer the telephone.


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[Assistant] John and Jill will take their vows as husband and wife next month.


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[Assistant] When it comes to dancing, nobody can move like Michael Jackson.


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[Assistant] Initially we had some problems with our computer system, but they've been sorted out now.


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[Assistant] My time in school will be one of my happiest memories.


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[Assistant] Such an economic program will help the rich at the expense of the poor.


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[Assistant] Direct marketing is a means of allowing people to shop from home.


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[Assistant] When it comes to my supervisor, he's very inconsistent. So we never get any work done.


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[Assistant] Houses should be built so as to emit plenty of light as well as fresh air.


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[Assistant] Passengers shall not converse with the driver while the bus is in motion.


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[Assistant] The company's financial year runs from April until March of the following year.


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[Assistant] Paul is not a lazy boy. As a matter of fact, he works hard.


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[Assistant] At the funeral, the widow looked very dignified with her black suit, hat, and gloves.


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[Assistant] Carol and Carl are in the kennel, and other dogs are playing in the garden.


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[Assistant] If you take care of the small things, the big things will take care of themselves.


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[Assistant] Standing as it does on the hill, the hotel commands a fine view.


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[Assistant] He was the kind of kid who was always showing off to his classmates.


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[Assistant] It's true that she knows a lot about cooking, but she isn't a good cook.


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[Assistant] Sorry, but can you show me the way to the next village?


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[Assistant] Your essay has some mistakes, but as a whole it is very good.


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[Assistant] Some people look down on others because they have less money.


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[Assistant] Mary is so nice a girl that she is loved by everybody.


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[Assistant] Our captain got sick, so I attended the meeting in his place.


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[Assistant] I intend to take a month's vacation on completion of this job.


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[Assistant] The hardness of a diamond is such that it can cut glass.


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[Assistant] The money that Chris has not paid back adds up to a large sum.


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[Assistant] I had to attend two meetings yesterday, and there was no time to have lunch between.


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[Assistant] The scientist gave a lecture on the structure of the universe.


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[Assistant] Had he taken his doctor's advice, he might not have died.


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[Assistant] We all try hard to make the great in life, but only a few succeed.


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[Assistant] No matter what results may follow, I will carry out my plan.


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[Assistant] Joanne became a great actress in spite of having had a difficult childhood.


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[Assistant] What with fatigue and lack of sleep, he has fallen ill at last.


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[Assistant] I don't want to put her to even a small inconvenience.


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[Assistant] Our company needs someone who is at home in advanced technology.


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[Assistant] We spent the major part of our holidays in the country.


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[Assistant] When we have a family argument, my husband always sides with his mother instead of me.


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[Assistant] From the look of the sky, I'm afraid the rain won't let up for awhile.


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[Assistant] This dog is trained to save people in the mountains.


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[Assistant] The strong dollars on the US economy has become very serious.


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[Assistant] The train was just on the point of starting when I got to the station.


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[Assistant] If you hear from Jenny, could you tell her I would like to see her?


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[Assistant] In UK they have much rain at this time of the year.


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[Assistant] It will not make much difference whether you go today or tomorrow.


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[Assistant] Before the horse race begins, the jockeys grip the reins tightly to restrain the impatient horses.


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[Assistant] All hope of my promotion went up in smoke after my reorganization plan fell through.


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[Assistant] Because of his great professional skill, the lawyer has a large number of clients.


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[Assistant] I imagine that you are wondering when your new PC will arrive.


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[Assistant] In a foreign country, most of us go through culture shock.


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[Assistant] It is true he is a learned man, but he lacks common sense.


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[Assistant] The more I studied computers, the more interesting I came to find it.


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[Assistant] When I was in Australia, I had great difficulty in speaking English.


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[Assistant] There are things in this world which simply cannot be expressed in the form of words.


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[Assistant] Granted that you are right, we still have to persuade him first.


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[Assistant] I don't want to rush you, but let's try to catch the next bus.


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[Assistant] It has been raining on and off since the day before yesterday.


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[Assistant] The population of your city is about five times as large as that of my town.


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[Assistant] I am very sorry, but I must cancel our appointment for February 27.


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[Assistant] That scandal will be known to everybody in the course of time.


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[Assistant] I went back to online chat to talk with a friend of mine.


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[Assistant] It has been raining since the day before yesterday, but it may clear up this afternoon.


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[Assistant] It will soon be possible for us to go direct to New York by air.


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[Assistant] Some of the students were from Asia and the others were from Europe.


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[Assistant] Our rent is four times as much as it was ten years ago.


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[Assistant] According to some scholars, a major earthquake could occur at any moment now.


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[Assistant] These potato chips are good enough to make you want more.


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[Assistant] Arriving at the station, I found the train had already left.


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[Assistant] I'm so dumb. I'm trying to explain things to you that I don't understand myself.


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[Assistant] Excuse me, but would you kindly lift that box for me?


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[Assistant] I want to buy this material for a new dress How much does it cost?


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[Assistant] There are a number of shops selling foreign books and periodicals.


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[Assistant] Sorry to be so direct, but how much did you pay for this?


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[Assistant] This medicine, properly used, will do you a lot of good.


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[Assistant] Just as food feeds the body, so reading feeds the mind.


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[Assistant] If you stop and relax, this will relieve the tension and stress in your shoulders.


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[Assistant] It should be stressed that we are often influenced by advertising without being aware of it.


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[Assistant] That's the same story as I heard when I was a child.


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[Assistant] John studied hard at school, while at home he helped his mother with her work.


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[Assistant] However fast you may walk, you can't catch up with him.


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[Assistant] The world is divided into people who get things done and people who get the credit.


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[Assistant] After we had walked for some time, we came to the lake.


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[Assistant] I'd like the most inexpensive room you have for four nights.


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[Assistant] To everyone's astonishment, Mike won first prize in the speech contest.


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[Assistant] This national treasure can be seen by the public only once a year.


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[Assistant] If it had not been for your support, he would have failed in business.


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[Assistant] In many parts of the world, there is not enough food to meet everyone's needs.


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[Assistant] I need to make an urgent call. Is there a public phone near here?


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[Assistant] The people at large are hoping for great changes in the light of the present situation.


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[Assistant] This is just what I have been looking for so long.


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[Assistant] The monkey, trained properly, will be able to do a lot of tricks.


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[Assistant] There is no hurry. You have five days to think the matter over.


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[Assistant] My uncle will have been in New York for two years next month.


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[Assistant] Since you are no longer a child, you should be responsible for what you do.


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[Assistant] A whistle blew and the boat slowly began to pull out of port.


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[Assistant] I had my wallet stolen on my way to the office.


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[Assistant] As the train was crowded, I kept standing all the way to Sydney.


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[Assistant] I hurried to the station only to find that the train had already left.


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[Assistant] You ought to take advantage of this opportunity, for it may not come again.


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[Assistant] Bob brought such good news that they jumped up with joy.


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[Assistant] If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.


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[Assistant] It is unlikely that such a cool-headed person got upset.


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[Assistant] There is nothing for me to do except to obey the order.


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[Assistant] The town is supplied with water from a reservoir in the hills.


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[Assistant] You have been thinking about this problem the whole morning. Take a break. Go eat lunch.


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[Assistant] The old cottage had only one bed, so we all took turns sleeping in it.


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[Assistant] The key question is not what can I gain, but what do I have to lose?


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[Assistant] Judging by the swelling, the man must have been bitten by a snake.


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[Assistant] Because the surroundings were so dark, he could not see anything.


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[Assistant] Send for the doctor at once, or the patient will get worse.


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[Assistant] Judging from the look of the sky, it may rain at any moment.


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[Assistant] When I return from vacation, I shall have to catch up with a lot of work.


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[Assistant] I thought our boss was stubborn as a mule, but actually he has his cute side.


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[Assistant] The burglar tied my hands behind my back with a rope.


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[Assistant] Owing to a bad cold, he could not take part in the game.


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[Assistant] At last he stopped before an old house and caught another glimpse of the town.


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[Assistant] The musician is enjoying great popularity both in UK and in US.


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[Assistant] If you think education is expensive, wait till you see what ignorance costs you.


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[Assistant] physical fine fine arts arts science science politics politics philosophy philosophy geography geography photojournalism photojournalism


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[Assistant] Management. Statistics, statistics. Archaeological, archaeological. Accountancy, accountancy. Biology, biology. Computer, computer. Literature, literature. Sociology, sociology.


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[Assistant] engineering, engineering architecture, architecture business, business law, law economics, economics finance, finance banking, banking


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[Assistant] At the end of Amy's life, hyped up on morphine and home in hospice,


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[Assistant] The New York Times published an article she wrote for the Modern Love column on March 3, 2017. It was read worldwide by over five million people. The piece was unbearably sad, ironically funny and brutally honest. While it was certainly about our life together, the focus of the piece was me. It was called, You May Want to Marry My Husband.


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[Assistant] Amy quite literally left a empty space for me to fill with another love story. Amy was my wife for half my life.


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[Assistant] She was my partner in raising three wonderful, now grown children. And really, she was my girl. You know, we had so much in common.


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[Assistant] We loved the same art, the same documentaries, the same music. Music was a huge part of our life together, and we shared the same values. We were in love, and our love grew stronger up until her last day. Amy was a prolific author.


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[Assistant] In addition to two groundbreaking memoirs, she published over 30 children's books.


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[Assistant] Postomously, the book she wrote with our daughter Paris, called Dear Girl,


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[Assistant] Reach the number one position on the New York Times bestseller list.


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[Assistant] She was a self-described tiny filmmaker. She was five feet one, and her films were not that long.


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[Assistant] Her films exemplified her natural ability to gather people together. She was also a terrific public speaker.


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[Assistant] Talking with children and adults of all ages, all over the world.


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[Assistant] Now my story of grief is only unique in the sense of it being rather public. However,


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[Assistant] The grieving process itself is not my story alone.


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[Assistant] Amy gave me permission to move forward, and I'm so grateful for that.


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[Assistant] Now, just a little over a year into my new life, I've learned a few things.


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[Assistant] I'm here to share with you part of the process of moving forward through and with grief.


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[Assistant] But before I do that, I think it would be important to talk a little bit about the end of life, because it forms how I have been emotionally since then. Death is such a taboo subject, right?


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[Assistant] Amy ate her last meal on January 9th, 2017.


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[Assistant] She somehow lived an additional two months without solid food.


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[Assistant] Her doctors told us we could do hospice at home or in the hospital. He did not tell us that Amy would shrink to half her body weight. And she would never lay with her husband again.


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[Assistant] And that walking upstairs to our bedroom would soon feel like running a marathon.


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[Assistant] Home hospice does have an aura of being a beautiful environment to die in.


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[Assistant] No disruptions for mandatory drug administration. Home with your family to die.


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[Assistant] We did our best to make those weeks as meaningful as we could. We talked often about death. Everybody knows it's going to happen to them, like, for sure.


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[Assistant] But being able to talk openly about it was liberating. We talked about subjects like parenting.


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[Assistant] I asked Amy how I could be the best parent possible to our children in her absence.


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[Assistant] In those conversations, she gave me confidence by stressing what a great relationship I had with each one of them and that I can do it.


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[Assistant] I know there will be many times where I wish she and I could make decisions together. We were always so in sync.


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[Assistant] May I be so audacious as to suggest that you have these conversations now, when healthy. Please, don't wait.


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[Assistant] As part of our hospice experience, we organize groups of visitors.


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[Assistant] How brave of Amy to receive them, even as she began her physical decline. We had a Kraus night, her parents and three siblings.


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[Assistant] Friends and family were next. Each told beautiful stories of Amy and of us. Amy made an immense impact on her loyal friends.


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[Assistant] But home hospice is not so beautiful for the surviving family members. I want to get a little personal here and tell you


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[Assistant] But to this date, I have memories of those final weeks that haunt me.


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[Assistant] I remember walking backwards to the bathroom, assisting Amy with each step. I felt so strong.


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[Assistant] I'm not such a big guy, but my arms looked and felt so healthy compared to Amy's frail body. That body failed in our house.


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[Assistant] My wife died of ovarian cancer in our bed.


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[Assistant] Through our dining room and our living room to a waiting gurney to have her body cremated. I will never get that image out of my head.


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[Assistant] If you know someone who's been through the hospice experience, acknowledge that. Just say you heard this guy Jason talk about how tough it must be to have those memories, and that you're there if they ever want to talk about it. They may not want to talk, but it's nice to connect with someone living each day with those lasting images.


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[Assistant] I know this sounds unbelievable, but I've never been asked that question.


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[Assistant] Many of the readers who reached out to me wrote beautiful words of reflection.


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[Assistant] The scope of Amy's impact was deeper and richer than even us and her family knew.


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[Assistant] Some of the responses I received helped me with the intense grieving process because of their humor.


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[Assistant] Like this email I received from a woman reader who read the article, declaring, I will marry you when you are ready, provided you permanently stop drinking. No other conditions. I promise to outlive you. Thank you very much.


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[Assistant] Now, I do like a good tequila, but that really is not my issue. Yet how could I say no to that proposal?


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[Assistant] I laughed through the tears when I read this note from a family friend.


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[Assistant] I remember Shabbat dinners at your home, and Amy teaching me how to make cornbread croutons.


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[Assistant] Only Amy could find creativity in croutons.


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[Assistant] On July 27th, just a few months after Amy's death, my dad died of complications related to a decades-long battle with Parkinson's disease.


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[Assistant] What makes us capable of dealing with this intense loss and yet carry on?


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[Assistant] Was this a test? Why my family and my amazing children?


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[Assistant] Looking for answers, I regret to say, is a lifelong mission.


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[Assistant] But the key to my being able to persevere is Amy's express and very public edict that I must go on.


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[Assistant] Throughout this year, I have done just that. I have attempted to step out and seek the joy and the beauty that I know this life is capable of providing.


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[Assistant] Those family gatherings, attending weddings and events honoring Amy, as loving as they are, have all been very difficult to endure.


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[Assistant] People say I'm amazing. How do you handle yourself that way during those times? They say you do it with such grace. Well guess what?


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[Assistant] I really am sad a lot of the time. I often feel like I'm kind of a mess. And I know these feelings apply to other surviving spouses, children, parents and other family members.


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[Assistant] In Japanese Zen, there is a term, shōji, which translates as, birth-death.


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[Assistant] There is no separation between life and death, other than a thin line that connects the two.


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[Assistant] Birth, or the joyous, wonderful, vital parts of life, and death, those things we want to get rid of, are said to be faced equally.


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[Assistant] In this new life that I find myself in, I am doing my best to embrace this concept as I move forward with grieving.


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[Assistant] In the early months following Amy's death though, I was sure that the feeling of despair would be ever-present, that it would be all-consuming.


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[Assistant] Many members of the losing a spouse club reached out to me.


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[Assistant] One friend in particular who had also lost her life partner kept repeating,


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[Assistant] I didn't even know what she was talking about. How was that possible?


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[Assistant] But because Amy gave me very public permission to also find happiness,


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[Assistant] I now have experienced joy from time to time.


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[Assistant] There it was, dancing the night away at an LCD sound system concert.


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[Assistant] Traveling with my brother and best friend or with a college buddy on a boy's trip to meet a group of great guys I never met before.


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[Assistant] From observing that my deck had sun beating down on it on a cold day, stepping out in it, laying there, the warmth consuming my body.


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[Assistant] The joy comes from my three stunning children.


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[Assistant] Texting me a picture of himself with an older gentleman with a massive strong forearm in the caption.


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[Assistant] I just met Popeye. With a huge grin on his face.


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[Assistant] There was his brother Miles walking to the train for his first day of work after graduating college.


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[Assistant] And my daughter Paris, walking together through Battersea Park in London, the leaves piled high, the sun glistening in the early morning on our way to yoga.


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[Assistant] I mean, beauty of the wabi-sabi variety, but beauty nonetheless.


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[Assistant] On the one hand, when I see something in this category, I want to say, Amy, did you see that? Did you hear that? It's too beautiful for you not to share with me.


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[Assistant] I now experience these moments in an entirely new way.


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[Assistant] Like the moment in the newest Manchester Orchestra album.


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[Assistant] When the song the alien seamlessly transitions into the sunshine.


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[Assistant] Or the haunting beauty of Luke Sitow sings, It's Killing Me, whose chorus reads, And it's killing me that you're not here with me. I'm living happily, but I'm feeling guilty.


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[Assistant] A way of seeing the world that was so much a part of Amy's DNA. Like on my morning commute, looking at the sun reflecting off of Lake Michigan.


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[Assistant] We're stopping and truly seeing how the light shines at different times of the day in the house we built together.


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[Assistant] Even after a Chicago storm, noticing the fresh buildup of snow throughout the neighborhood. Or peeking into my daughter's room as she's practicing the bass guitar.


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[Assistant] Listen, I want to make it clear that I'm a very fortunate person.


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[Assistant] I have the most amazing family that loves and supports me.


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[Assistant] I have the resources for personal growth during my time of grief. But whether it's a divorce, losing a job you work so hard at,


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[Assistant] Or having a family member die suddenly or of a slow-moving and painful death. I would like to offer you what I was given. A blank sheet of paper. What will you do with your intentional empty space?


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[Assistant] This is Houston. You are approaching the moon. Fantastic. Snoopy, you're on the moon.


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[Assistant] Well hello and welcome to this English lesson about gigantic things. I'm a little bit gigantic in the frame. Let me zoom out a little bit. Uhm, today we're going to learn about gigantic things.


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[Assistant] In the world around us there are things of different shapes and sizes. Some things are small, some things are tiny. I did a lesson about tiny things a couple of weeks ago. Uh, some things are normal size.


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[Assistant] But some things are big, some things are huge, and some things are gigantic or enormous.


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[Assistant] And that's kind of the order I use those words in. I usually say that something is big. If it's bigger than that, I might say it's huge.


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[Assistant] And if it's bigger than that, I might say it's gigantic or enormous. I don't think there's any specific rules about when to use huge, gigantic or enormous. So that's just my personal order of how I describe very, very, very big things.


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[Assistant] So once again, welcome to this lesson about gigantic things. I have a lot of gigantic things to talk about in this lesson.


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[Assistant] Planets. Planets are gigantic. When you think about things that we know and things that we can see, there are planets in our solar system.


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[Assistant] I know some people say Pluto isn't a planet, but when I was in school...


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[Assistant] We learned that Pluto was a planet. Pluto is relatively small when it comes to planets, but Jupiter and Saturn are gigantic. They are enormous planets. Remember again, this lesson is about gigantic things, but I'm going to use the word enormous a lot too.


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[Assistant] Jupiter is a gigantic planet. Certainly much bigger than Earth. But if you think about it,


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[Assistant] Compared to humans, every planet in the universe is gigantic, in my opinion. Uh, people are not very big when you start comparing us to other things.


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[Assistant] And do remember, even though some of the words in this English lesson might seem simple and they might be words you know, listen to the other words I use as well. I just use the term solar system. I said Jupiter, Saturn.


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[Assistant] So, do remember that even though I'm talking about just one word that you might know, there might be a few other words you can learn along the way.


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[Assistant] Obviously the moon is smaller than the earth, but it's still gigantic in my opinion. Some planets have multiple moons. I believe Jupiter has a number of moons. I don't know how many.


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[Assistant] But moons as well are big, they're gigantic. If we wanted to live on the moon, the moon is big enough that we could go to the moon and we could


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[Assistant] Uhm, we could build a moon base. We could actually build a place on the moon where we could live.


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[Assistant] So far we've visited the moon. So far we have space stations that orbit the earth that people live on. But as yet no one has really gone to live on the moon long term. Maybe that will happen in my lifetime. We'll see.


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[Assistant] And then stars, if you didn't know this, the sun is actually a star. Uh, stars are quite big. The sun is enormous. The sun is gigantic. Uh, and it's also very, very hot.


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[Assistant] Whales. When you start to talk about animals, we have animals like a whale. A whale I think is, I think the blue whale might be the largest animal on earth.


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[Assistant] So the whale, or a number of different whales, kinds of whales, are some of the biggest, if not the biggest animals on the planet. If you were in a boat, and if a whale jumped out of the water,


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[Assistant] You would definitely use the word gigantic. You would say, oh, that was a gigantic whale. And when that whale jumped out of the water and landed, um, there was a gigantic splash of water as well. But yes, definitely whales are enormous sea creatures.


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[Assistant] And elephants are definitely enormous land animals, or animals that live on land.


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[Assistant] Towers. So here is the Eiffel Tower. Towers are these things humans build.


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[Assistant] Because we want to see how tall we can make something and how beautiful we can make it look.


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[Assistant] So around the world there are different towers. In Toronto, there's something called the CN Tower.


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[Assistant] So if I drive about an hour and a half from here, I can see the CN Tower.


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[Assistant] The CN Tower is quite tall, and it's, I would say it's gigantic. Every year, uhm, I think just once a year, there's a race, you can use the stairs to go to the top, and some people walk to the top of the CN Tower, that would be a gigantic,


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[Assistant] Tall and gigantic. So you'll see that gigantic can be used to mean something really big.


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[Assistant] But I can also use it to talk about something that's really tall. You could say, oh, that tower is gigantic.


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[Assistant] So it has a couple of slightly different meanings there.


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[Assistant] And then oceans. So around the planet, we live on a planet where there's a lot of water. And oceans are huge bodies of water. Remember how I said,


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[Assistant] The vocabulary might be simple but I'm going to use other words as I describe it. So an ocean is considered a body of water.


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[Assistant] Oceans are huge. There's the Atlantic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, the Arctic Ocean, uhm, the Indian Ocean, trying to think of all these different oceans that they are, that there are. But the ocean,


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[Assistant] Is so gigantic that for a long time people did not regularly cross the oceans in boats.


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[Assistant] It wasn't until fairly recently, in the last few hundred years, that people regularly and safely started to cross the ocean in ocean going vessels. Okay, there's another term for you. An ocean going vessel is a boat that is able to cross the ocean.


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[Assistant] Definitely, definitely huge. Definitely gigantic.


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[Assistant] Mountains. So in Canada, where I live, there aren't any mountains.


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[Assistant] In Western Canada, we have the Rocky Mountains, and they are gigantic. I have seen the Rocky Mountains a few times in my life.


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[Assistant] In fact, my brother in law and sister in law used to live out west.


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[Assistant] And so when we visited them, we would see the Rocky Mountains and they are gigantic. They are, they're so big. They're so tall that my brother-in-law and I went skiing. We went downhill skiing in July one year. We went to a local mountain to hike.


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[Assistant] And we realized the ski slopes at the top were open. So we came back the next day and we skied all day. It was a super, super fun day.


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[Assistant] Bridges. So there are bodies of water that sometimes people can't cross.


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[Assistant] And so we build bridges. When we started building bridges hundreds of years ago, they were pretty tiny. Maybe a small footbridge. Maybe just a small suspension bridge that people could walk across. But eventually we built cars and we needed a way to get cars across bridges and trains.


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[Assistant] So we built trestle bridges, we built suspension bridges, we built all kinds of bridges.


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[Assistant] To cross usually water, but sometimes just a valley or ravine.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but bridges have become gigantic. There's actually a bridge in eastern Canada that goes all the way from the coastline to this island of Prince Edward Island.


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[Assistant] So this enormous, enormous bridge, I forget the name of it, uh, Bridge to PEI.


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[Assistant] The confederation bridge, 12.9 kilometers long. The longest bridge in the world over ice covered water. So there you go. This is not the confederation bridge by the way. Uhm, but yes, bridges, some of them are gigantic.


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[Assistant] Cargo planes. So, one of the biggest planes in the world I believe is a cargo plane. I'm not 100% sure. In order to


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[Assistant] Bring lots of things from one country to another or to move them within a country. We will often use cargo planes. A cargo plane is different than a passenger plane.


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[Assistant] Maybe it's filled with cars. Maybe it's filled with military equipment. Maybe the cargo plane is filled with


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[Assistant] A whole bunch of iPads coming, uh, to my country to be sold to Canadians, but cargo planes are full of cargo. So again, cargo is anything that needs to be shipped. So interesting thing here.


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[Assistant] We use the verb to ship, to talk about whenever we send stuff. So if I bought a t-shirt online, they would ship it to me.


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[Assistant] We even use the word when talking about cargo planes. So you would say, my t-shirt is, uh, my t-shirt was shipped. They shipped it via cargo plane. So it didn't go on an actual ship. It went on a plane, but we use the verb ship to talk that way.


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[Assistant] Passenger planes, we are all familiar with these. A passenger plane can be gigantic. Some are small.


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[Assistant] I mean, they're all big, but some are relatively small, but some are gigantic. A Boeing 757 is huge. An Airbus, I want to say 380. What's the biggest Airbus? Biggest Airbus. Airbus A380 is a gigantic plane. Uhm, so definitely we have


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[Assistant] Really learned how to make planes well as a civilization.


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[Assistant] Container ships. So there are a number of different kinds of ships. There are a lot of cruise ships in the world, but there are also a lot of container ships. So a container ship


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[Assistant] Has a lot of containers on it. All of these things on this ship are called containers.


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[Assistant] It is how we ship the vast majority of products on this planet So there are container ships continually moving around the world


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[Assistant] When a container ship got stuck in the Suez canal, it, canal, it affected the whole world because we all rely on container ships to get certain things.


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[Assistant] If I want to buy a car that's made in Japan, we can buy Japanese cars in Canada. It comes on a container ship. If for some reason that ship can't make it across the ocean, it really affects the world's economy.


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[Assistant] I'm not sure I ever will go on a cruise ship, we'll see.


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[Assistant] What's a good way to describe this? Like a floating hotel? That might be a good way to describe it. A cruise ship is a gigantic ship filled with people.


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[Assistant] Hot air balloons. Now these aren't necessarily gigantic, but when you see one up close, it seems gigantic. It's really fun to see a gigantic hot air balloon up close unless you are my


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[Assistant] One of Jen's friends also grows flowers and a hot air balloon made an emergency landing in her flower field and mushed


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[Assistant] Yeah, dammit, if it was damaging your, uh, your flowers that you were growing.


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[Assistant] Machines or machinery. So we kind of use these two words interchangeably. A farm has a lot of machinery. They have tractors and they have wagons and they have what's called a combine to harvest things. You could also call it a harvester, a combine harvester.


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[Assistant] Uhm, machines and machinery. Again, we use the two words interchangeably, like the farmer bought a lot of machines or the farmer bought a lot of machinery.


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[Assistant] Have you seen a newer tractor? Have you seen how gigantic tractors have become? Here's a funny story. I have a tractor that I thought was a big tractor.


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[Assistant] But it's actually now considered to be a medium sized tractor because


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[Assistant] Tractors have become so, uhm, enormous and gigantic over the last 20 years that, uh, people no longer consider my tractor, uh, to be, uhm, a very big tractor, so.


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[Assistant] We don't often use the word gigantic unless we're talking about extremely big men with lots of muscle. Okay. So here's when I hear the word gigantic. If you're watching the Olympics and you're watching the men's weightlifting, you might say that guy is gigantic.


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[Assistant] We don't often use the word gigantic to talk about women, I'm not sure why, but if you're watching the heaviest weight class in a boxing match, you might say, a men's boxing match, you might say, oh, uhm, the fighter from


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[Assistant] Belgium, he's gigantic. What you mean then is that that person has a lot of muscle. You're also saying they're probably quite tall. But if you see someone like this, I think this is an actor.


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[Assistant] I think he was in Game of Thrones, I'm not sure. Uhm, but you would say, not to the person.


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[Assistant] You wouldn't walk up and say, you're gigantic. But you might say to a friend...


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[Assistant] Did you see that guy? He's gigantic. Meaning that he's, has a lot of muscle, very physically fit, uhm, and, uh, huge. Yeah, you would use that word as well.


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[Assistant] So, this one's a little gross, so look away if you don't want to look. Sometimes on our faces, we get things that we call zits or pimples. We use the word zit a lot in Canadian English.


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[Assistant] So often get these or teenagers, but sometimes I'll get a zit too. Uhm, it's not uncommon for me to do an English lesson and there's like a small red spot somewhere on my face. We call this a zit. And even though a zit is actually tiny,


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[Assistant] When you get a zit, often people will say, ah, it's picture day at school and I have a gigantic zit on my forehead, or I'm going on a date.


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[Assistant] I just realized I have a gigantic zit on my face. So even though the zit is actually small, we use the word gigantic to describe it.


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[Assistant] I'm going to make this picture smaller because it's grossing me out a bit. We make, we use the word gigantic because of how it makes us feel. It makes us feel a little bit embarrassed.


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[Assistant] Mistakes. Sometimes you make a gigantic mistake. Sometimes you make an enormous mistake or a huge mistake. One might be that you accidentally drove your car in the ditch because you turned the wrong way or something. You made a gigantic mistake.


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[Assistant] Uhm, a gigantic mistake that I recently saw someone do is they forgot what day their exam was.


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[Assistant] A student came to school a day later and their exam was actually the day before. So that would be a gigantic mistake. That would definitely be a gigantic mistake for sure.


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[Assistant] I'm using the phrase up close. When you see something up close, it means that you're close to it. Uhm, sometimes if you see a person in the distance, you don't recognize them until you get up close and then you can see who they are. So I've never seen an iceberg in real life. I've only seen pictures and I've never seen, uhm,


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[Assistant] An iceberg up close, that would be fun someday to do that. Trees.


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[Assistant] So hopefully I say this one right. In western, in the western United States, there are trees called sequoia. And they are the biggest trees in the world, I think.


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[Assistant] We have gigantic trees. We have gigantic maple trees in some places.


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[Assistant] Close to me, there's one of the oldest maple trees in Ontario, my province. Uhm, and you can't, you can't put your arms around it. Like I think you need four or five people to join hands to put your, to put your arms around the whole tree. So.


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[Assistant] Trees definitely are things that can be gigantic. Storms. Last night we actually had a really bad storm here. As I was driving home last night, the storm was so bad, the rain was so intense that I had to drive 40 kilometers an hour. And it was also starting to get dark.


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[Assistant] And the person in front of me didn't have any lights on their trailer or on the back of their vehicle. Their brake lights were broken. So I was in a really bad rainstorm and it was gigantic. Uhm, I drove for half an hour.


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[Assistant] And I was still in the storm. So it was, well, it normally would have been a half hour, but it took me longer.


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[Assistant] But we do have gigantic storms. It seems that the last couple of summers we've had more and more gigantic storms. If you remember on my farm last summer we had a gigantic storm and my willow tree broke and a big branch was hanging.


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[Assistant] In the background of my videos for a month or two until I finally cleaned it up. But yes, we definitely have, it seems like more and more gigantic storms in the summers here.


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[Assistant] I'm not sure this is a competition, but we certainly have been building some gigantic buildings in the world in the last 10, 20, or 30 years. Sometimes you will see a building and you'll say that's a really tall building, but sometimes it's just gigantic. Like a gigantic building would be


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[Assistant] Central Park in New York, there's a really gigantic apartment building right now that's either being built or almost finished.


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[Assistant] So, I do not own a mansion, but some mansions are gigantic. Are all mansions gigantic?


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[Assistant] It's because these days, if you're a millionaire,