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Warrener Posted 20 years ago
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A question will throw you.

0Sometimes a question will 01b00throw02b00 you -- even you have practiced thoroughly, the interviewer's question might still make you nervous.02br
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00What does the 'throw' mean here?0-
  

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01cite10Warrener12cite10Sometimes a question will 11b10throw12b10 you -- even you have practiced thoroughly, the interviewer's question might still make you nervous.12br
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10What does the 'throw' mean here?12br
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0Thanks, but under what circumtance can I use "throw"?02br
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00Can I say " Tom, you threw me so much!" (Tom, you surprised me so much)0-
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0 No, you can't use it like that. You say it when something unexpectedly confuses you. Think of it as a shortened form of "to throw off track". A train runs on tracks, right? So if you notice that the tracks turn left up ahead but the train turns to the right once it reaches that point, wouldn't you find that 01b00unexpected02b00 and 01b00confusing02b0
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0Thanks lot.02br
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00In Java (a programming language), they call the function to catch handle error as "throw an error". Maybe this explains why it's named so.0-

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