There was once a man who had a daughter who was called Clever Elsie.

从前有一个人，他有一个女儿，名叫聪明的爱尔莎。

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There were once a man and a woman who had long in vain wished for a child.

从前，有一对男女，他们一直想要个孩子，但一直没有实现。

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There was once a man in South America who had a parrot, a pet bird that can imitate human speech.

从前，南美洲有个人养了一只鹦鹉，一种能模仿人类说话的宠物鸟。

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One visitor,a former Navy man,once said: "The only good thing about my fighting in the war was that I was too young to be terrified."

VOA: special.2009.05.25

A local public relations man suggested a celebration of the area's once plentiful strawberry fields.

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He said: "A man who has once been the candidate of his party -- and defeated -- owes it to his party not to be a candidate again."

VOA: special.2010.05.27

In fact I was a man weighed down with disappointment, a man for whom things had not worked out the way he had once imagined, a quiet man, cautious in his life, timid when you came right down to it, though content enough to drift along through the little rituals of his day.

NEWYORKER: Miracle Polish

My daughter once met a young man at an expensive boarding school who grew up in Alpine.

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Once again a deranged man has walked into an American school armed with powerful semi-automatic weapons and left a trail of death and heartache in his wake.

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