The train was on time, but there was no sign of my Finnish friend.

火车准时到达了，但还没有见到我芬兰朋友的踪影。

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I like writing now, but my friend doesn't like writing.

我喜欢写，但我的朋友不喜欢写。

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It is likely that an Italian with a working facility in English would have been hired, but my friend did not look an Italian.

一个带着英文的工作设备的意大利人有可能被雇佣，但是，我的朋友看起来不像意大利人。

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But the researchers found that the influence of a friend of a friend of a friend can be greater than that.

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The master had commanded his servants, of course, to do something - to show a profit in a due and timely fashion, but Milton wants his friend here to know that there's, of course, nothing to worry about.

主人要求他的仆人，适时的,展示出自己的利润，弥尔顿希望，他的朋友知道。

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but if you explain it to your friend that you or she should not have or should have done something,

如果你想要向你的朋友解释，或者她应该做某事的时候，

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It was a big step away from pure, basic research, sniffed some dons, but Friend argued it was the best way to drive his technology to market and fund improvements in the basic science along the way.

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But Friend envisions a time when the casing of a handheld computer or telephone will have one organic polymer that soaks up a room's light and uses it to juice a battery, which then powers one of his hyperefficient OLED screens.

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She was to have traveled with a friend, but the friend cancelled.

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