What were the students discussing at the beginning of the text?这句话如何译

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What were the students discussing at the beginning of the text?这句话如何译

文章开头,学生门在讨论什么?

在教材的最开始学生们当时正在讨论什么?
本人觉得要把were译出来就只有译为当时了哈