"I have," he remarked with pardonable pride, "done what I set out to do."

“我已经，”他以可原谅的骄傲语气说，“完成了我要做的。”

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He was beside himself with rage when I told him what I had done.

我告诉他我做了什么事，他就勃然大怒。

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"What have I done?" he thought.

“我干了什么？”他在想。

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"It may cost one or two seats to be lost in tough districts, but I think once people really find out what this bill does and how good a job he's done and the Democrats have done, I think they may very well pick up some seats."

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And I take that to be the paragraph where he talks about what fiction has done for him specifically.

重申了,这种念头，“,绕了一圈。

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You might have--it would be incorrect, I think, in listening to what he said and conclude that he just says diversify because he's obviously done something very different from that.

如果你们听课以后觉得他的秘诀,只是投资多样化,那可不太全面,显然他还做了不少其他的事情

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"We weren't actually waiting on the scan because we knew instantly what he had done, I said to the doctor straight away, 'that's a cruciate, " he said.

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"I do not think Mitt Romney realizes what he's done to anyone, and furthermore I do not think Mitt Romney is concerned, " Soptic says.

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He was so proud of what he had done, and I think that we need to applaud people like that who stand up and are not afraid to go to a house, as you said, that had, you know, plastic bags over the windows and never seen anyone come out of it.

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