And you may have had the following strange experience. You listed, you weighed, you calculated the answer — and, in a flash of insight, you realised it was the wrong one.

当然，你也可能会有以下奇怪体会：列举出理由，衡量利弊，最后计算答案—突然，灵光一现，你意识到得到的是一个错误的答案。

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She wanted to know why I didn't tell her right away that she had the wrong number . Before I could answer her, she hung up.

她想知道为什么我不马上告诉她她的电话号码错了。我还没来得及回答，她就挂上了电话。

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I wrote an answer to his letter, thank'd him for his advice, but stated my reasons for quitting Boston fully and in such a light as to convince him I was not so wrong as he had apprehended.

我回了他的信，感谢他的劝告，但是我详尽地叙述我离开波士顿的理由，这样使他相信我的出走不是像他以前想象的那样不近情理。

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The mistakes in this summer's papers included multiple choice questions where all the answers were wrong and questions which were impossible to answer because wrong information had been given.

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But it bothered him that, in the new wars, soldiers had to answer to the media for every wrong move.

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His answer was that I was wrong, that I had made my mind up in advance, that I did not understand the subtleties of the European construction because I am from an island.

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