As the school quieted down Tom made an honest effort to study, but the turmoil within him was too great.

在学校安静下来的时候，汤姆努力认真地学习，但是他内心的波动太大了。

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Many people have great ideas, but implementing them takes a lot of time and effort, so they would rather work at their own projects than join yours.

很多人有远大的想法，但是实现它们需要大量时间和努力，所以他们宁可从事自己的工作也不会加入你。

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He finally pardoned her; but this cost him a great effort; he sulked for three days.

他到底谅解了，但是得先经过一番很大的努力，他一连赌了三天气。

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But despite great effort, the educational system as a whole has been unable to apply this truth on a broad scale, to produce better results, until now.

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"Maybe we didn't make the best choices, but we certainly gave great effort, " Heath said.

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This is particularly a problem for families who might want to all watch the same program at the same time, but cannot find anything (without great effort) that everyone is happy with.

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