His tooth had started to throb painfully again.

他的牙又开始抽痛了。

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She had started to delve into her father's distant past.

她开始探究她父亲久已逝去的岁月。

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Her hands had started to shake.

她的手早已哆嗦起来。

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Engineers said it would cost less to complete the canal De Lesseps had started twenty years earlier in Panama.

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The '70s were a terrible time to invest in stocks, a bull market had started in 1982.

0年代股票投资一直萎靡不振,牛市在1982年才露端倪

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But he had great birth, and so he started getting more power politically and financially by setting himself up as the patron of the patronless.

但是出身很好，于是他通过给人当庇护人,来提高自己的政治及金融地位。

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TSE, and found that most had started late and provided only scanty details of their progress.

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In the library, a few of the kids had started to lean forward in their seats.

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Many had started their shifts more than nine hours before and weren't taking breaks.

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