A friend told me the following story.

一个朋友告诉了我这样一个故事。

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A friend told me he no longer recognizes his wife.

一个朋友告诉我，他不再认可他的妻子了。

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A few months ago, a friend told me that he had stopped using Gmail.

就在几个月前，我的一个朋友告诉我说他再也不用Gmail了。

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He told a friend: "I am satisfied that if the election were held now, nothing could prevent me from becoming president.

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Just recently, a friend told me that she's leaving her research lab,

就在最近，我的一个朋友跟我说她要离开她的研究实验室了，

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I have a friend who's a social psychologist who told me a story once that really made me very nervous, although she's fine.

我有一个社会心理学家朋友,她曾经给我说过一个故事,让我很紧张，虽然她现在一切都好。

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Whenever I drive to Montauk, I think of a story a friend told me.

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Earlier this year, a friend told me about a Google-Search-Reveal mishap at a conference she had attended.

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Early on, a very dear friend told me very matter-of-factly to treat this cancer as a pain-in-the-ass inconvenience.

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