He had only seen the movie once and had no idea what it was from.

那个片子他只看过一次，不知道这句话是从哪来的。

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But whatever he had, once their friendship had been established, he was always willing to share it.

而且一旦成为朋友，无论得到什么东西，他都愿意分享。

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He told me that woodwork was just a hobby for him now, but once it had been useful-when he had fixed shelves and done minor repairs.

他告诉我，现在做木工只是他的一种爱好了，以前可是一门有用的手艺，他会安装架子和修理镜子。

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Eight-sixty-one Jasmine Street had been a fine house once, but now it was old and dying.

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A stranger with a flair for cocktail party descriptive prose might have commented that the room, at a quick glance, looked as if it had once been tenanted by two struggling twelve-year-old lawyers or researchists.

一个鸡尾酒派对的调酒师,也能看一眼就对这件房子作出评论，他会看得出房间曾被两个奋斗的,12岁的律师或研究员租过。

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You had once had a penis but somebody had taken it from you.

她们本来是拥有阴茎的,但却被某人夺去了。

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But by taking over the Spanish empire, America had become the kind of imperial power it had once denounced.

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Blancpain had pretty much stopped making watches in the 1970s--it had once supplied diving watches to the U.S. Navy--and hadn't been much of a factor in the industry for a long time before that.

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Once it was on the ground, the moon was a pockmarked, sandy boulder, so dull and opaque that it was incredible to think that it had once illuminated the sky with its shining reflection.

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