It was Sod's Law—the only day he could manage was the day I couldn't miss work.

真是天不遂人愿—他只有那天抽得出时间，偏偏我上班离不开。

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He hopes one day to surpass the world record.

他希望有一天能刷新世界纪录。

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He spent the whole day writing.

他整整写了一天。

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On the day after he died, the lights of Broadway theaters darkened for a minute in honor of Arthur Miller.

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I just basically do year-one to the present, it's was nice warm outside, that was the day he was born.

我到现在做了一年，那天户外很晴朗暖和，那天他出生了。

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But at the end of the day, he also essentially made a property argument or a property defense of slavery.

但是在最后,他也做了一个产权本质的争论,或奴隶制的财产辩护

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He often went to buy tools with which to repair the ranch house, but he also passed the time of day chatting with the gardener, or with the keepers of the general store and the hardware store, whose livelihoods he diminished day by day, as he lengthened the accounts he had with each of them.

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" He calls the day he finished the book "the best day of my life.

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In his diary, he recorded that he was on leave that day and his wife June confirmed that he spent the day with her, cutting the grass and going shopping.

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