Around the time I spoke of the long struggle, I signed the first of a series of orders to prepare for it by using all the tools available.

在说到这场长期斗争的时候，我签署了一系列命令中的第一项，即利用一切可以用到的手段来做准备。

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We must seize this moment to cater for the poorest of the world, including that young Mexican girl I spoke of yesterday, who dreams of a world without desperate poverty.

我们必须抓住时机为全世界最贫困的人民谋福利，其中也包括我昨天见过的墨西哥小姑娘，她梦想着一个没有极端贫困的世界。

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In the sentence 'I spoke to the driver of the car', 'the driver of the car' is a noun phrase.

在句子I spoke to the driver of the car中，the driver of the car是名词短语。

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No one believes I spoke to the spirit of Leeuwenhoek.

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There's a kind of, well, masculinism in Yeats, and it's part of what I meant last time when I spoke of Yeats's anti-modernism or his reactionary modernism.

叶芝有点大男子主义，我上次提到叶芝反对,现代主义是就在指这点。

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That explains, in large part, why there was such a decline in population, why the Dark Ages were so dark, lots of poverty, lots of starvation, but also, as I suggested when I spoke of this earlier, also the freedom if you could make it, to learn and also to grow stronger.

这解释了,在绝大部分地区,为什么存在着这一类的人口消减,为什么黑暗时代如此黑暗,如此贫困,如此多的饥荒,但是同时,就如在我之前所提到的,同样可以,如果做得到的话,去学习以及使自身强大

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Each one of those markers is a monument to the kinds of hero I spoke of earlier.

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When I spoke of the soundness and integrity of capital markets, I was referring to a lot more than high-yield bonds.

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"You will recall that the reason I came to national attention was a speech in which I spoke of my love of this country, " said Obama.

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