You know,it would've been a whole lot worse if Edward wasn't there.He knocked me out of the way.

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He was continually imagining himself to be someone on the verge of saying something spectacular, but he wasn't quite there yet.

他一直想象自己,成为那种能说出一些惊世骇俗的话的人，但是他还没有到那一步。

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There wasn't one organizing yet around New Haven or nearby in Connecticut so he went to New York and he joined the Sixth New York Cavalry.

当时在纽黑文和康乃狄格附近还没有军队,遂他去了纽约,他加入了纽约第六骑兵团

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Trenda Purcell had first gone to another place looking for him, but he wasn't there.

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Everything has gone through him, and it's just a shame for him that he wasn't there at the end.

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Gerald Hines turned down London's Canary Wharf, which later bankrupted Canada's Reichmann family: He thought there wasn't enough mass transit serving the site.

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