Her girlhood dream had been to study painting.

她少女时代的梦想是学绘画。

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In my youth my ambition had been to be an inventor.

在我年轻时我的抱负曾是当一名发明家。

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The party had been to the grouse moors that morning.

这支队伍那天早晨已经去过了松鸡沼泽。

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Three men on the American team, Bill Demong,Todd Lodwick and Johnny Spillane had been to the Olympics before.

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No English poet before Milton ever suggested that he had been chosen by God at birth to be a poet.

在弥尔顿之前没有英国诗人敢说,自己是被上帝选中去做诗人的。

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We saw that the Bohr model was able to correlate the observations of Angstrom, which had been formulated by Balmer.

知道了波尔模型,可以和阿姆斯特朗的观察相吻合，这观察后来被巴尔末推导出来相证实。

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He said he had been to Belize, Afghanistan, Mozambique and Cuba, among other places.

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He said Drummer Rigby's dream had been to join the army when he was growing up.

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This girl had been to school and received a cow by a project like Heifer International.

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