我曾被误导相信宣传是件小事。

I had been lulled into thinking the publicity would be a trivial matter.

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这份报纸曾被排版并打印出来。

The newspaper was being typeset and printed.

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橡皮子弹曾被用于冲散游行队伍。

Rubber bullets were used to break up the demonstration.

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Now Buckle is a forgotten name today, but at one time he was just about as famous as Oswald Spengler who wrote The Decline of the West.

现在巴克尔已经被人们淡忘了，但他曾和写《西方的没落》的,奥斯瓦尔德，斯宾格勒一样著名。

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His invasions at one time are turned back when they literally open the dykes and flood the French armies back.

他的入侵曾一度被击退,因为荷兰人,真的"开闸泄洪",大水把法军淹得够呛

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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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