他们曾经常大量饮酒。

They were used to imbibing enormous quantities of alcohol.

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他们曾经担心她的女儿会不开心。

They once worried that her daughters would not be happy.

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他们曾经走进我们的生命。

They once entered our life.

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Well, "The wonder is I didn't see at once" and that is the grave that he has made for their child.

奇迹的是我曾经看不见“,是他为他们的孩子准备的坟墓。

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He wants to know if they are the same men who so callously broke their father's heart by selling Joseph, his father's favorite, so many years ago.

他想知道他们是否还是老样子,就像他们曾经卖了约瑟夫，伤了他们父亲的心，多年前，约瑟夫最受父亲宠爱。

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They are individual creatures who seem really to be in hell just as they seem really to have been in heaven; but the figures of Sin and Death, they are entirely different animals.

他们是独立的生灵，身处于地狱,也曾经生活在天堂;,但是罪恶之神和死神却是两个完全不同的生物。

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