'Now, just in case any of you were wondering, I never thought any of this was going to be easy, ' he said.

“可是，假使有人对此表示疑惑的话，我历来认为做一件都不会是一帆风顺的。” 他说。

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But it now has customers who might never have thought of patronizing the business.

但是，现在它拥有了客户，也许从来都不想光顾它的客户。

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I can hardly believe now that in all those five days I had never once thought of taking the bidon back to the shop.

我现在还简直不能相信在那么久的五天里，一直没想到把油壶拿回铺子。

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Never before in his life up to now had he once thought of suicide.

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Breaux admitted the coalition was now fractured, but he said he never thought all of the centrist Democrats would vote for the final budget resolution after it came out of the House-Senate conference.

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Now, mind you, this nagging thought never overwhelmed my love for the advertising business to the point of protest.

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