The ships were to be decommissioned.

这些船即将被停止使用。

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In general, the changes they had made were to be welcomed.

总的来说，他们所作的这些变动都会被欣然接受。

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The children were nowhere to be seen.

根本看不到孩子们在哪儿。

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To be considered for the study, children were supposed to be close to cigarette smoke at least 5 times a day.

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If this were to be an absolute zero Kelvin, then we could we can have something, T2 Sorry, it's T2.

如果它等于绝对零度，我们可以，对不起，这是。

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They hung dead, well, not actually, actors pretending to be people that were dying from the trees.

他们把死尸吊起来，当然不是真的，而是演员假装成吊死在树上的死人。

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"Perseverance in struggle and the courage to be were characteristic of Margaret Thatcher, " the bishop said.

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While other auto chief-executives-to-be were punching keyboards in an accounting office, Fukui ran the company's motorcycle racing operations.

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The parents-to-be were thus exposed to visual, auditory, tactile and (from the blanket) olfactory stimuli associated with having a baby around.

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