He thought he could fool people with transparent deceptions.

他以为他能用易识破的骗术愚弄人。

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This time he thought he could detect colicky symptoms, and he began to encourage them with considerable hope.

这一次，他认为他可以发现肚子痛的症状，他开始满怀希望让他们发作。

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He thought he could fool me but I got wise to him.

他以为能耍得了我，其实我清楚他是怎么一号人。

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Lena Horne later said that she first became involved with Lennie Hayton because she thought he could be useful to her career.

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The philosopher Spinoza thought that ... if we could only recognize the fact, what he at least took to be the fact, that everything that happens in life is necessary, then we'd get a kind of emotional distance from it; it would no longer upset us.

哲学家Spinoza认为,如果我们能够认识到这个事实，至少他认为这是事实，即生活中的一切事情都是必然的，那么它对我们的情绪影响就比较少;,它不会再让我们感到痛苦。

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He thought that if these memories could somehow be brought into the conscious mind, the patient would again feel the pain.

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"It was pretty sore, but he said he thought he could play, " Collins said.

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"It was pretty sore, but he said he thought he could play, " manager Terry Collins said.

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His broker, Mr. Massey says, told him he thought he could get 500 shares or more.

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