He claimed, improbably, that he had never been there.

他声称从未去过那里，令人觉得不可靠。

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He had never been afraid of failure: he was a gambler, ready to go off somewhere else and start all over again.

他从不害怕失败：他是个冒险家，随时准备去别的地方重新开始。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

He had never been as tender to her since.

他从来没有这么温柔过。

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For years, he had always been planning to paint a work of art, but had never yet begun it.

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And he'd never,rather like Louis-Napoleon, had hardly ever been in Paris before; he really hadn't,I don't think,ever.

他不像路易·拿破仑,以前很少到过巴黎,他是从来没去过

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Paul had never been inside it, but he used to stand near the hotel's wide glass doors.

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He was adamant under oath that he had never been molested at any time.

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It monitored where he was working and included some places he had never been employed.

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He had never been interested in border problems and had taken the border fence for granted.

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