They are thereby shut off from the world of books and newspapers, having to rely on friends to read aloud to them.
他们因此与书本和报纸的世界隔绝，只能依靠其朋友为他们朗读。
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The young rebels who are outgunned in the classroom and shut out of the journals must make their appeal to the public through books, magazines, tracts, speeches, and debates.
They believe that if there are 50 pages of content to learn, need to do is sit down and "shut down" the brain thinking, looking at books on word of it.