in your own words

基本解釋

Tell me what happened in your own words.
用你自己的話把發(fā)生的事情告訴我。
Make sure the information that you have noted is carefully recorded and in your own words, if possible.
一定要確保你抄錄下來的信息都是準確的或者可能的話，盡量用你自己的話說出來。
Restate what has been stated: Practice saying, “Let me see if I understand” to someone, then restate what you think they mean in your own words.
重新描述別人所講述的類容：練習對那個說：“讓我想想我所理解的"，然后重新用你自己的話描述一下你所認為的別人的想法。

In other words, when you bite off your own project or when you start off by looking at someone else's projects, either that we looked at last week or some of the innumerable links we included in the specs, focus on just one piece of it, get that working, and then move on to the next.
換句話來說，當你開始著手去完成一件屬于你自己的工程,或者，從參閱他人現(xiàn)在的作品，更或者是，參考工程設計書中,提到的無數(shù)鏈接，至關重要的一點是，你必須讓它工作，然后再繼續(xù)下一環(huán)節(jié)。
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If you say something in your own words, you speak without copying what someone else has said.