The next evening she headed straight to his room only to learn that he had died.

第二天晚上，她直奔到他的房间，但是发现他已经死了。

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Or when you spent hours watching "Kim's Fairytale Wedding" over and over again, only to learn that keeping up with this Kardashian was a waste of time.

又或者，当你花好几个小时一遍遍重复观看“金的童话婚礼”(Kim ' s Fairytale Wedding)后，才发现要和这位卡达西安女士保持一致就是浪费时间。

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Did you ever think of someone as a boyfriend or girlfriend, only to learn that you were more serious about the relationship than the other person (or vice versa)?

你有没有想到过把某人视为男朋友或女朋友，不料竟获悉你对双方的关系看得比他/她更重（或者反过来）？

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She arrived at school in New York City -- only to learn that an unwritten limit of "two Negro students per year" had already been met.

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And in these experiments we not only need to learn what has been learnt, but also have to learn what it is that we don't know.

在这些试验里我们不仅,要知道已知的知识，还要知道,我们不知道的内容。

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because it's only by saying it and being corrected that you're going to learn.

因为只有当你讲出来，然后别人帮你纠正错误，你才会有所收获。

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Tell that to the parents who have survived a crash only to learn that their infant-in-arms was not so lucky.

FORBES: FAA Thinks Flying With Lap Kids Is Unsafe, But Doesn't Require Kids' Seats

I'm the man who survived the falling building only to learn that his sister and baby niece were in the plane.

BBC: What's your favourite poem?

There will be some women inconvenienced by being called back and given extra testing, only to learn that they do not have a problem.

CNN: Should I get a mammogram?