The father who was always very handsome and expensive in his tastes, seemed as if he never would be able to do anything worth doing.

父亲老是风度翩翩，出手风雅，似乎历来不会做一些值得一做的事。

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“He would remain an outsider in this world of letters, confined to existential purgatory,” writes Mr Lenzini: “He was not part of it. He never would be.

“加缪在文学界仍是个局外人，禁闭在炼狱里，”伦兹尼写道，“他不是文学界的一部分，从来都不是。

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You never knew, sir, perhaps, that out of doors he never would let himself be taken.

先生，也许你从来就不知道，他是决不会让人把自己带出门的。

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A month later, he was saying he was not a candidate for president -- and never would be.

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And, in a similar point, he maintains that punishment can never be used as an instrument of revenge but only for what he calls the correction or what we would call the rehabilitation of the offender.

同时他还认为,法律上的惩罚是不能作为复仇的工具,而当作为纠正罪犯过错的工具,即我们今天叫的,对罪犯进行改造。

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And you could never imagine that he would be somebody that people would listen to on the radio, hour after hour, because that's how long he talked; or that when Stauffenberg tries to kill him in 1944 the Germans would pour out of the-- into the street to thank god for saving the Fuhrer.

你根本就无法想像人们会在,收音机上听他讲话,听好几个小时,因为他讲话就讲那么长时间,或者在1944年,史陶芬博格想要刺杀他的时候德国人会冲到,到大街上感谢上帝拯救他们的元首

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He never would be.

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The former Middlesex wicketkeeper never had the chance to represent England during his playing days and, speaking earlier this year, he told BBC Radio Kent he never dreamt he would be involved at the highest level of the sport.

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Del Toro was a good draftsman, but he knew that he would never be a master. (His favorite was Richard Corben, whose drawings, in magazines such as Heavy Metal, helped define underground comics: big fangs, bigger breasts.) So del Toro turned to film.

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