I spent years getting ready for this job.

那份工作，我花了很多年时间准备。

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Still, I spent years feeling like an inferior mother ? like I should have trusted God to protect me in subsequent childbirths.

许多年来我依然觉得自己是个不称职的母亲, 好像我应该信仰上帝会在以后的分娩中保护我.

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I spent years isolating myself, dwelling on everyone and everything that hurt me, feeling like a victim and wondering, "Why me?"

我曾经孤立自己很多年，总觉得每个人和每件事都带给我伤害，好像自己就是受害者，并且总想知道“为什么总是我受伤？”

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Suppose somebody said, "Look, I spent 20 years living in France, and then I came back to the United States.

假设某人说,我在法国住了二十年,之后我回到美国

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I'm just back from 2 years in Ecuador. I spent 2 years in Ecuador in South America.

我在厄瓜多尔呆了两年，刚回来。我花两年的时间在南美的厄瓜多尔。

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Yeah, I spent two years there.

是的，我在那儿待了两年。

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After I lost my son, I spent years raging at the whole universe, to no avail except to learn that the universe is 100% indifferent to what seems fair.

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I, Sam Pulsifer, am the man who accidentally burned down the Emily Dickinson House in Amherst, Massachusetts, and who in the process killed two people, for which I spent ten years in prison and, as letters from scholars of American literature tell me, for which I will continue to pay a high price long into the not-so-sweet hereafter.

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The first model includes the industry where I spent 15 years automotive components.

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