"I saw it crawl up the wall bit by bit. It did not stop, but went on and on. And I thought I could do the same. So I recited it bit by bit, and did not give up," said Tom.

“我看到它一点一点地爬上墙，它没有停下来，而是继续前进。我觉得我也能做到。所以我一点一点地背诵，并没有放弃。”汤姆说。

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Once I was watching something about cooking on TV and I thought I could do this, so I went to the bookstore and looked for the biggest cookbook I could find.

有一次我在电视上看有关烹饪的节目，我想我可以做这个，所以就去书店找自己所能找到的内容最多的烹饪书。

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I thought I could do many things.

我认为我能做许多事情。

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He thought,'I could do that,' and eventually started training to become Peru's first winter Olympian.

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I could never make a merit of being caviare to the crowd the way my quasi-friend Pound does. I want to reach out, if it were a thing I could do by taking thought.

我不能因为创作大众的阳春白雪而夸耀,就像我的半个朋友庞德一样，我希望伸展开来，如果这是我动脑经就能完成的事。

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"And this fired my imagination. I thought,'My gosh, we could do something like that.'" Sir Clem Renouf, then president of Rotary International, convinced Rotarians across the globe to unite against the disease by raising money to fight the virus and by volunteering their time toward that effort.

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' And I think it extended what I thought I could do as an actor or musical performer.

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"The last two miles, I thought I could do it, " said Prokopcuka, chasing a third successive marathon win after wins in Osaka and New York last year.

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At the time I thought I could do it.

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