我曾认为做饭和料理家务是琐碎简单的工作。

I thought that cooking and housekeeping were unimportant, easy tasks.

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我曾认为用纸越多，意味着家里越干净。

I used to think more paper towels meant a cleaner home.

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我曾认为完美是取得成功的途径。

I used to think that perfection was the pathway to success.

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And what is more, they actually invited me at once to join them, as though politics and I were a fit match.

更甚之，他们其实曾邀请过我加入他们，因认为我是块政治的料子。

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In fact, this is an argument that's been made a number of times, and I think there's a lot of sense to it -the last eight lines of Lycidas are written in a very specific line form the Italian scheme of the ottava rima.

这是一个的确曾被无数次提到的观点，并且我也认为这个观点确实有一定道理,利西达斯的最后8行是以一种非常特殊的体裁写的,即意大利式的八行诗。

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This other man I had dreamed A drunken, vain-glorious lout.

我曾认为这另外一个人,是爱好虚荣，粗鄙不堪的酒鬼。

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