O nce upon a time long ago, even before the days of King Arthur, there lived a blacksmith only three feet tall.

很久很久以前，比亚瑟王的时代更早的时候，有位身高三英尺的小铁匠。

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That was a long time ago and despite the fact that there is more education out there for girls and women than ever before, my experience is still shared by a lot of preteens even today.

那是很早之前的事情了，尽管现在有许多针对女孩和女性的培训，比之前多得多，但如今，还是有许多13岁以下的小孩子来分享我的经验。

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A long long time ago the roots of this word were Indo-European and meant "to put," or "to put up" or even "to hang up."

很久以前，那是印欧语系的词根，意味着“去放”或者“举起来”甚至“挂起来”。

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Every year the government wastes tens of billions of dollars -- taxpayer dollars -- on erroneous payments to companies that haven't paid their taxes, or to prison inmates, or even to people who died a long time ago.

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Even if the patient had the experience a long time ago, its memory was as rich "as though it was yesterday, " Laureys said.

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