I said I would write to you, but as usual I never got around to it.

我说过要写信给你，但像往常一样总是抽不出时间来。

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My parents said that I would never walk it, which I vehemently denied, but which was probably true.

他们说（是因为）我不可能自己出外遛狗，父母这样说我当然坚决不同意了，但是他们所说的多多少少还真有点那么会事。

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"I couldn't say when the astronauts would get back or how much spacecraft we'd have left when they did, " he said. "But I never questioned that they'd survive."

“我无法回答宇航员何时能够回家，也无法回答当他们返航时飞船还能留下多少，”他说，“但我从未怀疑过他们一定能够生还”。

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"I was just a child but I understood that I would never give up my land, " Siren said.

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