My dad's little sister would cry at birthday parties because she could never have one of her own at home.

我爸爸的小妹妹会在生日聚会上哭泣，因为她从来没有在家里举办过生日聚会。

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I could never have a doughnut today!

我今天绝对吃不到甜甜圈了！

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It was like living in an age you could never have imagined, and that never has come back.

这就像生活在一个你永远无法想象的时代，而那个时代已经一去不复返了。

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She said many of today's leaders in Latin America, like President "Lula" da Silva of Brazil or President Evo Morales of Bolivia, could never have been elected in previous decades.

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Because they thought they could never have another so good; so, why try?

因为他们认为,他们不会再有一个这样优秀,聪明...,还有什么词来着

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The semiotician's answer to this is it never could have happened simply as an act of agency, as an act of will.

符号学者这样解释,这不是一己之力的结果。

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But then, he could never have conceived of a society as flexible as ours.

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"Edsac let scientists tackle problems that could never have been solved with mechanical calculators, " he said.

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The Beatles sample with the submerged bass drum could never have been cleared for commercial release.

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