He had not used his mother tongue for so long that every word in the book seemed alien.

他好多年没有使用母语了书上的每个字看起来都是那么陌生。

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One company was quoted as saying it had not used the term over embarrassment. They were unsure how to pronounce the title.

有一家公司指出，使用这个称呼并不曾尴尬。他们就是不确定这个称呼要怎么发音。

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The adjective werde “controlling one's fate” would have probably been lost if Shakespeare had not used it in Macbeth (weird sisters).

如果不是莎士比亚在作品《麦克白》（三个女巫）中对形容词werde（掌控某人命运）的使用，可能该词早已消失。

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It was not until the nineteen seventies that Henrietta Lacks' family learned that her cells had been taken and used by scientists.

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However, the RAIB investigation found that the phone had not been used since August 17 that year, and had not been used by Mrs Hudson on the day she died.

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The army had not used heavy weapons for some days, he said, since the government announced on Monday that it was halting its use of heavy weapons in the conflict zone.

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The thing you have to remember is that the prior art that belonged to Samsung, or belonged to somebody else that they had the ability of using, they had not used for quite some time.

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