We are confident that nothing we did or proposed was or could have been a breach of any rule or regulation.

我们确信我们的所作所为以及提议的内容既没有、也不可能违反任何法律法规。

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Quite often, after two years of therapeutic interviews, the description and explanation which was (or could have been) given at the outset appears in retrospect to have been quite accurate.

往往，经过两年的治疗访谈，回顾一开始给出(或可以给出)的描述和解释是相当准确的。

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At first, the scientists believed the geometrical figure carved onto the antler could have been either the mentioned woman, or a nude man raising his arms.

起初，科学家们认为刻在鹿角上的几何图形可能是之前提到的那个女人，也可能是一个举着双臂的裸体男人。

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Or it could have been used to hold the shape of the shoe while it was not being worn.

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The very idea that a figure so virtuous could have been dealt such a tragic and early death strikes Milton, or Milton's speaker here, as the rankest injustice.

这么贞洁的一个人竟然会这么早,就如此悲惨的死去，这极端不公平使弥尔顿，或者是诗中的讲述者，震惊。

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East Texas is right and now he's punching cows," and that was exactly right, and still I couldn't believe Gene could really have known Slim whom I have been looking for more or less for years.

是在得克萨斯州的东部，但现在他在放牛“,“这可真是太巧了“，但我仍然不能相信,吉恩真的认识细杆，这几年来我一直在找他。

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Plus, procedures may be performed that were not needed or could have been avoided.

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He said the track could have been broken by the accident or could have been fractured before the trains collided.

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While you have to applaud the Baseball Writers Association of America for taking a definitive stand with regard to ball players who were either associated or could have been associated with performance enhancing substances, they have inadvertently penalized Jack Morris during a critical moment in his time on the ballot.

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