The post could have been much better written than it was, but it did much, much better than I expected it to.

那篇文章本可以写的更还好的。不过它比我预期的要好的多。

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Picking classes was far more arcane than I had expected (or than it would have been at a smaller school).

选课让我着实摸不着头脑，这远远超过我的预想的情况 或超过了稍小点学校的情况\n。

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With us for four months now, she has been following me around the house with needy eyes that I never would have expected to find so engaging.

至今她已经我们一起生活了四个月，她经常跟着我在屋子里转，带着她的那双我从未妄图找到的迷人的可怜巴巴的双眼。

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"Through this process I went to places I have never been nor expected go, " Marwah says.

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Of course, I could be wrong, but even as predictions along the way have not been as robust as I would have liked the fundamentals continue to build in the expected direction.

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If this had been the Ryder Cup, I would have expected Garcia to have turned up the heat and played some of the flamboyant shots we know he is capable of, but perhaps they are taking it easy.

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