in your own words

基本解释

Tell me what happened in your own words.
用你自己的话把发生的事情告诉我。
Make sure the information that you have noted is carefully recorded and in your own words, if possible.
一定要确保你抄录下来的信息都是准确的或者可能的话，尽量用你自己的话说出来。
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.
重新描述别人所讲述的类容：练习对那个说：“让我想想我所理解的"，然后重新用你自己的话描述一下你所认为的别人的想法。

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.
换句话来说，当你开始着手去完成一件属于你自己的工程,或者，从参阅他人现在的作品，更或者是，参考工程设计书中,提到的无数链接，至关重要的一点是，你必须让它工作，然后再继续下一环节。
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