He had kept his promise to Holmes, and so he had not accepted the Stapletons' invitation to their house that evening.

他恪守了对福尔摩斯所许的诺言，因此他没有接受斯台普顿让他晚上去他们家的邀请。

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Perhaps I had misjudged him, and he was not so predictable after all.

也许我对他的判断是错误的，他根本就不是那么墨守成规。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

I had made it as plain as I could so that he could not fail to take my meaning.

我已经尽我所能地说明白，所以他不会不理解我的意思。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

He had so totally given himself to scientific studies that he could not be weakened by a second love.

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But the servant who had been given only one talent hid the talent in the earth so as -- perfectly understandably ] - so as not to risk the only talent that he had been given.

但只得到一枚金币的仆人,把他的金币藏了起来--这可以理解,-为了不使这个他仅有的,金币丢了。

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If he had all of that,it's not so clear to me that it would be the wrong thing to say that, by golly,this is Napoleon.

如果他都拥有这些，那我就不太确定，这么说是否错误了，天哪，这是拿破仑。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Ms Tyrrell told the court she was "pretty certain" she had been told to remove it by Mr Drye and it would not have crossed her mind to do so if he had not asked her.

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He had tried to advance in this way, but had not succeeded, and so he had retreated into the muteness they expected, and perhaps preferred.

NEWYORKER: The Limner

Alister is surprised if he had not been talking so earnestly he would have noticed the problem.

NEWYORKER: Amundsen