There was time enough to obliterate memories of how things once were for him.

有足够的时间来抹掉他对过去的记忆。

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It's sometimes hard to imagine how bad things were in the thirties.

有的时候很难想像三十年代的情况有多糟。

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I met with the testers explaining how things were supposed to work and helping them plan how to test everything.

我需要向测试员解释所有的功能应当如何运转，并且协助他们编写测试用例。

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The question is not so much how we control what happens to us but what do we do when we were faced difficult circumstances, and how we can make spiritual meaning even when difficult things happen to us.

问题不是我们能够掌控多少,而是当我们面对困境,能做些什么，我们怎样体现灵性的意义,即便我们面临困境。

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When structuralism thinks about how yesterday things were different from the way they are today, it has to say: yesterday there was a certain synchronic cross-section of data, and today there's a slightly different synchronic cross-section of data.

结构主义想,昨天的事情和今天的事情如何不同时，它不得不说：,昨天有某个数据的同步剖面，今天有数据的略微不同的同步剖面。

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But, he says, the situation is now different to how things were several years ago, as the government needs the investment money to finance its huge privatisation agenda if projects like "Russia's Silicon Valley" and economic diversification are to work.

BBC: Russia's government avoids Norilsk Nickel battle

One of the prime movers behind the drive to get the carnival moved from its traditional west London home also dropped in to Notting Hill to see how things were going.

BBC: Carnival costumes

Ameresco management had already expected their quarter 2012 results to be less than 2011, but they did not see just how bad things were likely to get.

FORBES: Ameresco Revenues Fall Off Fiscal Cliff