Really, you could have told us before.
真是的,其实你大可事先跟我们说一声的。
The incident could have ended in tragedy.
这个事件原本可能以悲剧告终。
He could have taken a spare key.
他原本可以带上一把备用钥匙的。
He says calling for reductions in the national diet could have good effects, but it could also have harmful results.
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It's entirely imaginable that Milton could have been executed for his writings on behalf of the killing of King Charles.
由于他所写的关于处死查理国王的文章,弥尔顿完全可能被处死的。
But this very critique leveled against Levi-Strauss, he could have found in Levi-Strauss and does find it on other occasions.
但这个批判瞄准的是列维,斯特劳斯,他可以在列维,斯特劳斯的观点中找到,也的确在其他人的观点中找到。
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