There are two types of people in the world: those who remember everything exactly as it happened and those who have a tendency to muddle what's happened with what's imagined.

世界上有两类人：一类人是，发生的每件事都记得非常准确；另一类人是，将已经发生的事与想像的事趋于混淆。

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He called Amy to see if she knew where his son was. As it happened, Amy did know.

他打电话给埃米，看她是否知道他儿子在哪儿。碰巧的是，埃米还真知道。

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It happened to me just as it happened to you.

这事在我身上发生了，正如发生在你身上一样。

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He said it happened accidentally as he treated others.

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Now I could have made a key, keys don't have to be strings, but as it happened, I didn't.

现在我可以建立一个键了，键并不一定是字符串，但这儿既然已经是字符串了。

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The semiotician's answer to this is it never could have happened simply as an act of agency, as an act of will.

符号学者这样解释,这不是一己之力的结果。

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As it happened, though, Mr Obama tended not to wear the flag during the election campaign.

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As it happened, CFIUS had been racked by dissension in the previous year or so.

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Uh-oh: He was, as it happened, on his way to becoming quite rich, in real estate.

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