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Today let’s talk about our problems.

Problems

或许是因为考试临近，或许是因为工作需要，你现在必须把一本书读完。

Maybe you must read a whole book because the final test is approaching or your work forces you to do so.

这本书的内容不是轻松的文字，所以你不能一目十行。

The content in this book is hard for you to understand, so you can not finish this book for just few glimpses.

它需要你认真阅读并理解，甚至可能要求你根据它所陈述的原理或者规则进一步创造一些什么。

You need to read it carefully and fully understand the book, you are even being asked to follow the principles or rules to further create somethings.

–P002 《把时间当做朋友》

2019-01-30

glimpse

① (N-COUNT) 一瞥；扫视 If you get a glimpse of someone or something, you see them very briefly and not very well. ● Some of the fans had waited 24 hours outside the Hyde Park Hotel to catch a glimpse of their heroine.
为了一睹女主角的风采，一些追星族已经在海德公园饭店外守候了24个小时。 ② (VERB) 瞥见 If you glimpse someone or something, you see them very briefly and not very well. ● She glimpsed a group of people standing on the bank of a river.
她瞥见一群人站在河岸边。 ③ (N-COUNT) 短暂的感受；初步的认识 A glimpse of something is a brief experience of it or an idea about it that helps you understand or appreciate it better. ● As university campuses become increasingly multi-ethnic, they offer a glimpse of the conflicts society will face tomorrow.
大学校园变得日益多种族化，通过校园可以对未来社会将要面对的诸多冲突有一个初步的认识。 ● …a glimpse into the future.
对前途的大致展望