Yesterday’s pop quiz was to “Fill in the blank to name that lighting fixture component. Write it down so you can go to the store and buy it. Better yet, try to find it in a dictionary without using the English word that you already know.”
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Jiùshì bǎ zhèige liàngde, gē zài zhèige shàngtou yě bù liàng. Shì zhèi yìsī ma? Nà jiùshi zhènliúqì huàile. Jiù gāngcái gěi nín shuō de nèi báide: zhènliúqì.
就是把这个亮的，搁在这个上头也不亮。是这意思吗？那就是镇流器坏了。就刚才您说的那白的：镇流器。
So you take this one that lights up and put it on top of this one and it doesn’t light up. Is this what you mean? Then your ballast definitely went bad. The thing that I was just telling you about, the white thing: the ballast.
Maybe it wasn’t that hard. But the first time he said it, before the recorder was on, it was one big nasal blur.
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