The older boys laughed and told him that it was impossible to do it.

年龄比他大点的男孩们笑着告诉他这是不可能的。

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One day his son came to him and told him that he had read in the newspaper of a new discovery that they could operate on his eyes and allow him to see.

一天，他的儿子来告诉他，他在报纸上读到一项新的发现，他们可以给他的眼睛动手术，让他重见光明。

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I showed the project manager the results I got and told him that there was a mistake in one of the trials.

我给项目经理展示我的结论并且告诉他在进程中我们出现了一个小的失误。

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He quickly called for his jester and told him that his little daughter would see the moon.

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Homer was in error, Milton told us, and Milton called on the moral voice of Spenser to help him make that moral judgment against Homer.

弥尔顿告诉我们荷马错了，他还要求斯潘塞的道德之声,帮助他做出反对荷马的道德判断。

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He'd been diagnosed with, if I recall correctly, cancer as a freshmen--and his doctor had told him that he pretty much had no chance of recovery and indeed had only a couple more years to live.

他大一的时候就被诊断出癌症，如果我没记错的话--他的医生告诉他,他基本上没有治愈的可能了,并且实际上只有几年时间存活了。

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The teacher later approached Zaremba and told him that Oscar had never before volunteered to contribute.

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Orszag called Nabors that weekend and told him that they needed to have a budget meeting the following Monday.

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The VC found Gates and told him that he would like to invest in Xirrus as soon as it was ready to raise capital.

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