Look at the time—it's much later than I thought.

看看时间吧，比我想象的要晚多了。

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I had thought Jane didn't care about the result of the contest. But later I found her in floods of tears in the toilets.

我本以为简不在意比赛的结果。但后来我发现她在厕所里泪流满面。

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I later thought out that the gift looked exactly like Sarah's cat, Seymour.

我后来发现这个礼物看起来跟萨拉的猫西摩完全一样。

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"I thought that sooner or later one thing was sure to happen: The first real test once he was through school would ruin him.

VOA: special.2009.01.03

And I came to hope about ten years later, you had an important role in that, that I thought you may try to put the two together.

我希望十年后，当你们有一定生活阅历了，你们就可以把这两部影片对比着来看。

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I thought that sooner or later one thing was sure to happen: The first real test once he was through school would ruin him.

VOA: special.2010.03.27

Maybe later, I thought, just not now.

NEWYORKER: Wakefield

My teacher was a deeply tanned fellow named Aryeh, who told me he one day hoped to compete for the Israeli Olympic team. (I thought of him four years later, when Gal Fridman's Athens windsurfing victory landed Israel its first-ever Olympic gold).

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Later, I sometimes thought he was selfish, definitely old school, racing toward his own moment, which he always gained with a wheezy shout.

NEWYORKER: Hand on the Shoulder