Portraiture, once a luxury for the privileged few, was suddenly well within the reach of many more people.

肖像画曾经是少数有特权的人拥有的奢侈品，突然变成了更多人可以很容易接触到的事物。

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We water the flowers once a week.

我们每周给花浇水一次。

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We have to water this cactus once a month.

我们必须每月给仙人掌浇一次水。

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There is literally concrete evidence of their work." Tony Hawk says skateboarding was once a sport on the edge of society.

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By the way, once again there's a bit of a rift there between Barthes and Foucault. Foucault wouldn't say "quite futile."

顺便说一句，这里巴特和福柯,又有了分歧，巴特不会说“没有希望“

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and the last quarter is a seminar in which you only go once a week for three hours

最后一个季度是研讨会，每周只需要参加三个小时，

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One can see that this was once a vibrant city with an active commercial class.

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Actually, by suggesting I think about death once a day, Ura was going easy on me.

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Once a woebegone district characterised by criminal activity and crumbling architecture, Getsemani is undergoing a 21st-century renaissance.

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