He might have used better words to express his idea, but I think what he said makes a lot of sense.

他本可以用更好的词来表达他的想法，但我认为他说的很有道理。

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"Surely," said John, like one who had lost faith in his memory, "he used not to sleep in the kennel?"

“当然，”约翰说，就像一个对自己的记忆力失去信心的人，“他以前肯定不睡在狗窝里吧？”

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"I used to be Sisera, but now it's not. I'm on your side, I'm just pretending to support him," he said.

他说：“我曾经是西西拉的人，但现在不是了。我站在你这边，我只是假装拥护他而已。”

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He said these men would be used to get control of forts and other federal property seized from the Union.

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"An old friend of mine, Zeke Trotter." he said, "used to work in a tent show.

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I wish we had a sail, he said, to give you two boys a chance to rest. So they used his coat and one of the oars to make a sail and the boat moved much more quickly.

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The Iranian automobile industry, he said, used to import sheet metal for auto bodies from South Korea.

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He said he used to campaign against GSK when "they kept the prices very high for Aids drugs".

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He said staff used to go beyond what was expected of her to help them, such as showing them how to fill out forms.

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