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第三部第19課: 請重複跟讀 - 於留空之間可以順暢唸完為止‧

At the conference I was a fish out of water.
參加那個會議，真叫我感到彆扭，...
All the speeches were in French, a language I never studied.
所有的人發表講話的時候都是用我從來也沒有學過法語。
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Everybody else at the party ended up in the swimming pool.
參加聚會的每個人最後都到游泳池去游泳了，...
But I was a fish out of water because I can't swim.
而我覺得很彆扭，因為我不會游泳。
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My son, fresh out of college, keeps telling me how to run my business.
我的兒子大學剛畢業，現在他不斷地告訴我應該要怎麼做生意，...
But I've been making good money for 30 years so he's teaching a fish how to swim.
但是我三十年來生意做得很好，賺了不少錢．所以，他來告訴我怎麼做生意簡直是多餘的。
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The day after I got my private pilot's license, I told this man at the party all about how to fly an airplane.
我在得到飛行員執照後的一天，在一次聚會上告訴一個人怎麼駕駛飛機，...
Later I learned he was an airline pilot who flew jumbo jets --
後來，我聽說那個人是開大型噴氣機的飛行員，...
I'd been teaching a fish how to swim.
我真的是在關公面前耍大刀。
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