Ron tried the embassy, only to be told that Hugh was in a meeting.

罗恩到使馆试了试，不料被告知休正在开会。

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In most localities a given species of clam or coral persists essentially unchanged throughout a thick formation of rock, only to be replaced suddenly by a new and different species.

在大多数地方，某一种蛤蜊或珊瑚在厚厚的岩层中保持基本不变，只是突然被一个新的不同的物种所取代。

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The shower is easy to install – it needs only to be connected up to the hot and cold water supply.

淋浴器很容易安装–只需接上冷热水即可。

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The glasses permitted me to look around the apartment while I seemed only to be talking to him.

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One, two, three, four, so on each level of the picture I'm drawing, I've seem only to be looking at each number once.

，2，3，4，可见，在我画的,这幅图的每一层上，对每个数字,都只会用到一次。

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And it's really like maybe here and New York is the only place that you'll be able to really feel it.

真的，恐怕只有在这里和纽约你才能感受到这种能量。

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Hopes that North Korea was about to change have been raised before, only to be dashed.

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Blackberry had earlier declared services to be "operating normally", only to be contradicted by frustrated users.

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So this year the group submitted a detailed plan with drawings, only to be rejected again.

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