He started winding the window up but I grabbed the door and opened it.

他开始摇上车窗，但是我抓住车门,把它打开。

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He wavered, and started to slink away, but Tom seized him and said, "Aunt Polly, it ain't fair."

他犹豫了一下，打算溜走，可是汤姆一把抓住他，说道：“波莉姨妈，这不公平。”

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That very afternoon as soon as he got the permission, he started the work, but he couldn't afford all the tools or the plants that were necessary for it.

就在那天下午，他一得到许可，就开始工作，但他买不起所有必要的工具和植物。

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But he started--the pigeons started to think, effectively, what was it I did just before that last piece of corn came?

那些鸽子会想,上一粒谷粒掉过来之前我做了什么

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My father started it, but he died 19 years ago.

我的父亲是发起人，但是他19年前过世了。

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Of course Franklin did not create this invention alone, but he started it, he pursued it and he saw it through to completion.

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Just before he went on, Williams revealed he started singing the Rocky theme tune for "extra confidence", but just before he started singing it all went wrong because the door did not open.

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It started as a small local phone service, but he has since expanded it to include a 25, 000-kilometer fiber backbone, a fat slice of nationwide cellular radio spectrum and an Internet access provider.

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