This trick had been in his head all the time.

这个诡计一直在他的脑海里。

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He had been in a drunken street brawl.

他曾参与了一场街头醉酒斗殴。

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They had been interested in thorium -- a radioactive element that can fuel nuclear reactors but not be processed into weapons.

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And in fact I don't remember talking very much about the war though they had been in the war.

不过，说实话，我们并不经常,谈战争，虽然他们参加过二战。

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And how far in advance he had even been thinking about some of the stuff that he had done

他很早前就开始构思他的作品了，

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Mahatta Photo Studio had been in the family since his grandfather founded it in 1915.

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He was an American from New York who had been in Tokyo for several years.

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Worse, this softening was not geographic, as Intel's had been in Europe, but everywhere.

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