"He once asked."

他曾这样问道。

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He had asked her once again about her finances. And again she had equivocated.

他又问了一次她的财务状况。她再次含糊其辞。

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A schoolboy once asked George Daniels what he had at the end of the chain that led to his pocket.

一名男学生曾经问乔治·丹尼尔斯，他那根伸进衣袋的链子末端有什么。

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Miller once said that even after he and Inge had been married almost forty years, people still asked him about Marilyn Monroe.

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Or as Walker Percy, the great Southern writer, was once asked he was asked, in effect, "Why do Southerners have such long memories?

或者正如沃克·泊西,这个伟大的南方作家,曾被问到,他被问到,老实说,"为什么南方人的记忆如此刻骨铭心

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He was ninety-four years old. Someone once asked him if he thought he would still be playing at one hundred years old.

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Tommy Koh, another Singaporean diplomat and Asian-values theorist, says he once asked one of his Japanese colleagues why they were so quiet in this debate.

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It alleges he committed three counts of perjury, accusing him of lying twice when he was asked if he knew specific people and he denied knowing them and once when he was asked if he knew one of those people had been on a certain committee and he said he didn't.

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He once was asked how he felt knowing his footprints would likely stay on the moon's surface for thousands of years.

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