I came late and was scolded by the teacher.

我迟到了，受到了老师的批评。

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I didn't catch the first bus, that was why I came late.

我没有赶上第一班公共汽车，那就是我来迟的原因。

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I came late on the off chance that I could avoid Thomas.

我晚来，以为我有可能避开托马斯的。

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"Early in our marriage my wife came she was going to school and working late and driving home, so I baked a cake.

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And the reason I was was that I was interested in how the modern world came into being and it came into being I think in the late 16th century in some sense.

这是因为我对,现代世界的形成很感兴趣，而我认为,从某种意义上它是在十七世纪末期形成的。

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Carlos knew just how I took my coffee, and would stay up waiting for me if I came home late at night.

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It's been quite difficult to arrange these matches because I came into the job pretty late and the clubs were all mostly fixed up with their pre-season programme and matches.

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But I discovered football when I first came to New York in the late 1980s and my prejudices melted away.

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