The boy wanted to give up.

那个男孩想放弃。

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At that time I wanted to give up French.

那时我想放弃法语。

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A long time ago, I wanted to give up learning Chinese.

很久以前，我曾想放弃学习中文。

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The law at that time required black people seated in one area of the bus to give up their seats to white people who wanted them.

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I set up a theoretical framework here ... and I wanted to give you-- I mentioned oil because it seems to make it, to me, so clear what we're talking about here.

我建立了个理论框架,然后我想讲给你们听-,我之前提到石油是因为它适用于这个框架，非常清晰阐述我们所谈到的内容。

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At first,President McKinley wanted Spain to give up only Luzon, the main island.

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Dr. Cawley says one team in his study competed so hard that others wanted to give up, questioning the point of continuing to try.

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As Robert Hazell, of University College London, points out, if Mr Brown really wanted to give up his right of dissolution, he would have advocated fixing the parliamentary term.

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Speaking about the work ethic behind the new EP said "I've been recording those songs for about a year, but I love doing it, I never wanted to give up or anything".

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