They could not say with confidence that he would be able to walk again after the accident.

他们不能肯定他经过那场事故后还能行走。

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He could not say the name of his native town, Ketunnel.

他说不出他的故乡 Ketunnel 的名字。

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He could not say what a parrot or even the unmistakable ostrich was.

他说不出鹦鹉是什么，甚至连显而易见的鸵鸟也说不出。

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The newly elected president could not say no to such an invitation.

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And yet in the sense you could say there's really not a better time to start a business.

从这个意义上说，现在的确不是,创业的好时机。

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I don't have to go read what it printed out in the screen. This has returned a value that I can use. Because I could do a test to say, is this a return value? If it's not, I'll do something else with it. So the binding is still there, it simply doesn't print it out.

我不想读到屏幕中打印出来的这行字,程序返回过一个我能够使用的值,因为我可以做个小测试，来说明这是否是返回的值，如果不是，我可以做一些其它的事,而这个绑定依然在这儿，没有打印任何东西。

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Ridgely described Scott-Dunne as Vantage Fund's "administrator" but could not say precisely what that entailed.

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He said he could not say how much Iraq intends to repay the United States.

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They could not say whether or not they may have been stolen to order.

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