But it worked.

但是，它的工作。

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It was a complete fabrication, but it worked.

这完全是个谎言，可是她竟然相信了。

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It didn’t produce prose of great beauty. But it worked.

虽然这套翻译系统不能够翻译优美的散文，但它帮了救援人员很大的忙。

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He said the eighteen twenty compromise worked -- not because Congress passed it -- but because the states agreed to it.

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Some spending has gone up a little bit as a proportion of GDP ... But it worked. It did work. You cut the taxes... But it then fell apart in 2001.

尽管有些支出，按GDP的比例有过小幅增长,但毕竟奏效了，事实摆在那里，先减税。,但好景不长，到2001年就不行了。

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That sounds good--it worked and these little things-- they may seem like little things but they are technological advances.

这听起来不错而且很有效,这些小把戏...,这些看起来好像小把戏一般,但实际上它们是技术性的进步

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When Valerie was done, the thing was covered in elephant snot, but it worked.

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But it worked so well that patients are living longer and staying on the drug for years.

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That particular dodge no longer works, but it worked in 1963 and the resulting tax bonanza was grandfathered in 1994.

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