Rather than continuing to argue this point back and forth, consider why she may not want to pay you up front.

与其在这个问题上争执不下，不如思考一下她不愿意预先支付的原因。

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So, when the argument starts, just let your spouse know that this issue isn't something your willing to argue about, and walk away. If the issue is that important you will get back to it eventually.

所以，当争吵即将爆发的时候，你要让你的伴侣知道，这个问题根本不值得争吵，如果这个问题很重要，冷静以后，再讨论。

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Yet someone else would argue back,“ How can you tell that she smiled because she was pregnant then?

有人说：“怎见得她是因为发现怀孕而微笑呢？

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So, what you have to imagine is sometime back, I would argue, in the Mycenaean Period, somebody began making up one of these songs, telling the story of Greeks going to attack the city of Troy.

所以,你们想象一下在过去的某时,我当然是说在迈锡尼文明时期,有人开始创作这些诗歌中的某一首,它描述了希腊人攻打特洛伊的故事

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