We knew it was difficult to recover a body because any corpse left in the wild will be eaten, but we thought we could learn the name of the man.

我们知道找回一具尸体是困难的事情，因为遗弃在荒野的任何尸体都将被吃掉的，但是我们认为我们可以查到这个男人的姓名的。

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We searched until we knew it would be pointless to continue.

我们搜索又搜索，直到觉得继续下去也枉然时才罢手。

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Before we knew it, we heard the announcement that we were arriving in Beijing.

我们还没反应过来，就听到通知说我们要到北京了。

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We knew that now. We accepted him for the dog he was and loved him all the more for it."

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The only way that we knew how to grow it reliably was to grow it in its natural host: cows.

那目前我们所知道的唯一途径就是,利用它的自然宿主,奶牛

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We can know this information even if we just knew that the bond was stronger, we wouldn't need to look at a graph here, because it turns out that if you have a stronger bond, -- that also means that you have a shorter bond -- those two are correlated.

我们依然可以得到上面的信息,即使我们所知道仅仅是这个键更强，我们不需要去看这个图，因为事实上如果你有一个更强的键，这也就意味着你有一个更短的键-,这两点是互相关联的。

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"We knew it was there and that a little run was coming, " he said.

BBC: McCormack targets play-offs place

"We knew it would go like this, " Mr Berlusconi's defence lawyer Niccolo Ghedini told reporters.

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And that national threat has, at least for now, ended politics as we knew it.

CNN: Congress cooperating in wake of attacks