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1.史密斯太太对我抱怨说，她经常发现与自己十六岁的女儿简直无法沟通。
Mrs Smith complains to me that she always found it hardly to communicate with her sixteen-year old daughter.

2.我坚信，阅读简写的（simplified）英文小说是扩大我们词汇量的一种轻松愉快的方法。
I do believe that reading the simplified English novel is an easy and pleasant way to enlarge our vocabulary.