They could have finished their job by 5 p. m. but they stopped to play chess.

他们本来可以在下午5点完成工作的，但是他们停下来下棋了。

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Brantley said that the other squirrels also came back over the first few days, but within a week they stopped coming by and began to avoid people.

布兰特利说，在最初的几天里，其他的松鼠也回来过，但不到一周，它们就不再来了，开始避开人们。

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The lever gets them out of the box, but after more and more trials, they stopped scratching at the bars and pushing at the ceiling.

杠杆让它们出了盒子，但在越来越多的尝试之后，它们不再抓栏杆和推天花板。

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But soon they stopped. For the cow was now in violent pain, and they could see the calf's whole head.

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The lever gets them out of the box, but after more and more trials they stopped scratching at the bars, pushing at the ceiling and so on.

杠杆让它们逃出迷笼，但在经历多次尝试之后,它们不再抓栏杆，不再推顶棚。

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But she stopped short of saying she had known they were from Mr.Taylor.

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So I got in line to ask, but they stopped taking questions right before me.

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The rats still continued to run left when cued to do so, but they stopped drinking the chocolate milk.

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But they stopped short of endorsing Taiwan's request for U.S.-supplied antimissile defense systems.

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