过去我常常这样想。

I used to think that way.

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我讨厌测量食物，而且我常常这样说：一小撮盐，一把面粉，一些这个和一些那个。

I hate measuring, and I say things like: a pinch of salt, a handful of flour, some of this and a splosh of that.

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“坏消息是我们没有钻探到石油，”过去的投机石油家常常这样开玩笑说。

"The bad news is we didn't hit oil," ran the old wildcatter's joke.

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Travelers from England and elsewhere, France, who would come to the American colonies and would travel throughout the colonies, would often comment on this, that somehow Southerners were different culturally, attitudinally, behaviorally.

那些从英格兰,法国或其他地方,来到美国殖民地,四处游历的旅行者们,常常会做出这样的评价,即南方人总是很特别,他们的文化,观念,行为均与众不同

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