Once upon a time, a man met a dog and wanted it to help him in the fight against other animals, and the dog listened to him and did what he told him to do.

从前，有个人遇到一只狗，想让它帮助他与其他动物搏斗；狗听了他的话，照他说的做了。

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"You're a good worker," he told him. "I'll recommend you for a promotion."

“你是名好员工，”他说。“我要推荐你升职。”

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The doctor knew that James was very ill.However,to make him feel better,he told him a white lie that he would recover soon.

医生知道詹姆斯的病情很严重，但为了安慰他，他撒了个小谎，说他很快便会复原。

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He told him that a strong decision in the Dred Scott case might do much to bring peace to the country.

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Whatever he told me about, And I love him about it.

不管他跟我说的是什么，我非常喜欢他这一点。

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This limo driver told me this yesterday; he said it's going to cost him five hundred million pounds or something like that to do this.

那个司机昨天是这么跟我说的,他说他得花五亿英镑,才能买到

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"There is a basic contradiction at the heart of government policy, " he told him.

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He told them about his relationship and that -- what he told him was not just true things.

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He told him who to look for if something happened to him mysteriously.

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