But seeing the seriousness of his question,she said, "The mark has so often been called a charm that I was simple enough to imagine it might be so."

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It has often been pointed out that in the past 4000 years more wars have been fought for the possession of the tiny strip of land known as Canaan, or the land of Israel, or Palestine, than have been fought for almost any other area in the world.

很多人指出，在过去的4000多年中,为了占领这一小块土地，有过多次战争,这块叫迦南，或以色列或巴勒斯坦的土地，这些战争远多于世界其他地区。

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Often you will use the "it sounds like" pattern to condense what has been discussed already.

一般你会用“it sounds like”句型来概括已经讨论过的内容。

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In fact for readers of Paradise Lost, and this has been an experience now for a few hundred years, it does often seem as if there were some mysterious life force, a pulsating through Milton's dense and driving lines of unrhymed, iambic pentameter.

实际上，《失乐园》的读者们，几百年来一直都有这种体验，确实，似乎真有一种神秘的生命力，一种脉搏，贯穿在弥尔顿密集，强劲，没有韵律，长短不一的五音步格诗之中。

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