"What didn't happen at school that I wanted to happen, happened at home," said Murphy, whose children are now 17, 19 and 23.

“我期望发生的，学校并没有发生，而是发生在了家里，”马迪拉说，她的孩子已经17岁，19岁和23岁了。

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Should is a futile word. It's about what didn't happen. It belongs in a parallel universe. It belongs in another dimension of space.

“应该”是一个没用的词。它指的是没有发生的事情。它属于一个平行宇宙，属于另一个维度的空间。

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The headline news for the coal industry in 2010 was what didn't happen: Construction did not begin on a single new coal-fired power plant in the United States for the second straight year.

发生了的事才能成为新闻，但2010年煤炭行业一件没有发生的事情却成了今日的头条：美国已是连续第二年没有开工建设新的燃煤发电厂了。

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when I've been surprised. When we had like a surprise we got to go out to someplace very fancy, didn't really know what was going to happen ahead of time.

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If nothing bad happens, it means what didn't happen is good.

没有消息就是好消息。

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And that's why all those reactions, first of all, in some sense what I put up was kind of a trivial statement in actual fact saying they all happen spontaneously because I didn't specify what we were starting with exactly, what concentrations we were starting with.

首先这就是为什么所有的这些方程，在某种程度上,我举得这些例子说它们自发产生,这是一个琐碎的陈述,因为我没有说明，我们从什么地方开始。

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"We know what happened, we know what didn't happen, and we know how to fix it, " Jones said.

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But, as I mentioned before, it's what didn't happen that mattered to me: Vernon Reid didn't recognize me.

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"The way that history works, you don't get a lot of credit for what didn't happen, " Cheney says, referring to Rumsfeld's departure.

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