I happened to notice what the time was when she came to say goodbye.

我碰巧注意到她来道别的时间。

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The first time was when she was 12 and was handed "a very big book" she had never heard of.

第一次接触这部小说的时候，她才12岁，只觉得拿到了一本从未听说过的“超级厚书”。

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Time was when authors could make money from sidelines such as public speaking; Mark Twain pulled himself out of bankruptcy by going on the lecture circuit.

曾经有一段时间，作家们可以通过演讲之类的兼职赚钱；马克·吐温(Mark Twain)就是通过巡回演讲使自己从破产的困境中解脱出来。

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There used to be a time when the quickest way to travel across the western United States was in a stagecoach.

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So, one thing we said last time was when we put up a model and try and draw lessons from it, we should just take a step back and say, what's missing here?

在上一讲,当我们,从一个模型中总结结论的时候,我们应该回过头重新审视一下,看看我们是不是疏漏了什么

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And I think there was a time when that sense of dominion was used as justification for using those resources only to serve human needs.

我想，有一段时间里，这种统治感,被人们当做使用资源的借口,仅仅为了满足人类的需求。

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