Also, if my own self, or my own children, or my own friends did such a thing in their life, it's easy to excuse it if the circumstances were as I described.

话说回来，在当初那样的情况下，即便是我自己，或者我的孩子，或者我的朋友，做出了那样的事，也不是不能原谅的。

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When I was with my guy, the last thing I did was play hard to get.

当我和他在一起的时候，我最不想做的事情就是欲擒故纵。

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In my opinion, he did the right thing.

在我看来，他那样做是对的。

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I did the only thing I could do. I hit him with my closed fist as hard as I could.

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I think, in fact, a lot of women would say something like, I put my faith in God and I think I might bring down God's wrath if I did such a thing as to bet that my husband is going to die.

其实我觉得,不少女人会这样说,我是个教徒,我觉得如果我拿我丈夫的,性命去赌博,我会遭天谴的

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I can bring the same thing that my parents did, take him there,

我可以带给孩子们我父母曾带给我的东西，把他(孩子)也带去那些地方，

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My predecessor did the same thing, because it's the right policy for the United States of America.

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Around the time I got my driver's license my priorities shifted and I did what seemed like the sensible thing, following the lead of my former colleague Thomas Ricker by heading off to Ohio University intending to major in computer science.

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Yes, when I stomped the pedal from a standing start in the lightweight SL 550 (the all-aluminum body shaves 300 pounds off the previous generation roadster) and engaged its monstrous twin turbo V8, I could feel the skin on my face pulling back just as when I did the same thing in a V12 Aston Martin Vantage, a feeling I cannot replicate in my own 7-year old BMW 3 series.

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