I never tried to pretend that I was anything else.

我从来没有装模作样。

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She had never tried to put this feeling into words.

她从未试图把这种感情说出来。

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I have never tried to hide the truth about my past.

我从未设法隐瞒我的过去。

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Soon,the storm broke. The radicals tried something that had never been tried before.

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It's based on the ancient form of Japanese poetry, which is something that I had never tried myself.

这些诗是根据日本古代诗歌形式创作的，我自己都从没试过。

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Anyway, my mother tried to paint me, but I'd never hold still long enough.

我母亲也试过给我画肖像,可我总是坐不住

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He said the former Jamaica Labor Party-led government never tried to legislate against lottery scamming.

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"We have never tried to influence the rankings, " he said on French television on Saturday night.

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