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English Audio Request

sknc3
English / 7
by sknc3 on Nov. 15, 2013
26 Words / 2 Recordings / 2 Comments
Listen Record
Note to recorder:

Thank you!

We must not look behind too much, we must not look ahead too far and we must not fix our gaze too steadily on the present.

Recordings

  • 7 ( recorded by neofight78 ), British

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  • 7 ( recorded by Wataru ), アメリカ英語 US Accent

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    Corrected Text
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    We must not look behind too much, we must not look ahead too far, and we must not fix our gaze too steadily on the present.

Comments

sknc3
sknc3
Nov. 16, 2013

Thank you very much!

Wataru
Wataru
Dec. 28, 2013

Sentences like that are easier to read if you parse each clause with a comma, as I did. This is called the serial comma. It's more common in the United States than in Britain. Serial commas eliminate ambiguity in complex sentences.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_comma