He hadn't done any more than Young had been able to do, so he couldn't disprove the dominant theory.

他所做的和杨所能做的一样多，所以他无法反驳占主导地位的理论。

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Happily for jean Valjean that he had been able to weep.

痛哭对冉阿让来说是一种幸福。

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If he had been able to control his hallucinations, he would not have killed anyone.

如果能控制他的幻觉症状，他也不会去杀人。

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Missus Sommers bought two costly magazines that she used to read back when she had been able to enjoy other pleasant things.

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And he says of his own writing, "I had tried to convey something of what it felt like to be a Negro, and no one had been able to listen.

作者自己也这小说里写道：“我曾试着去和身边人,传达那种我想成为黑人的强烈感觉，但没人能听进去。

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had been able to talk to the person next to her whose name is? Erica.

她跟旁边的男生约好,他叫,艾瑞克

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Chief executive Jake Lucas said nobody had been able to make a success of it.

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Somehow, I had been able to skate by on this delusion for all too many years.

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From these vantage points, they had been able to plunder the resources of the centralized state.

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