Perhaps, you do A thing failed, however, the completion of A in the course of things, you have accumulated some experience, the success of a cause of B thing.

也许，你做A事失败了，但是，完成A事的过程中，你积累了一些经验，成功的做成了B事。

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In the normal course of things we would not treat her disappearance as suspicious.

在一般情况下，她不露面，我们也不会觉得有什么可疑之处。

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Of course, in the nature of things, and with a lot of drinking going on, people failed to notice.

当然了，事出必然，酒酣之间人们没有注意到。

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"We encourage the kids to mingling with schools in other countries, and then of course things like Skype now make that fantastically easy to do."

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In fact one of the frankly best things I ever did as an undergraduate was, perhaps fittingly, take this course pass-fail.

实际上我上本科时做的最得意的事,恰当地说，就是把这门课的成绩看成及格和不及格两种。

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That's one of the good things that theory teaches us and that I hope to be able to get across in the course of our varied approaches to Tony the Tow Truck.

这就是理论教给我们的东西,我也想通过从不同角度分析《拖运车托尼》,来告诉你们这一点。

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So, I chatted with them, and in the course of things brought up the Genographic Project, which aims, using genetic mutations as signposts, to map human migration from our origins in Africa to all the places we live today.

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"Women are good priests and there are many of them who would by now in the normal course of things be in episcopal roles or being considered for them, " Mr Clark insists.

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In the normal course of things, editorial work is relatively subtle, but there are famous instances of heroic assistance: Ezra Pound cutting T.

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