He had not spoken a few words when he got heated.

没说上几句话他就急了。

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She had never spoken a word to her sister-in-law for three days; but she had likewise dropped her fretful complaining, and we found it a great comfort.

她有三天没跟她嫂嫂说一句话了，可是她也不再怨天尤人了，这使我们深感宽慰。

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In some classes, only Spanish is spoken, even during the Pledge of Allegiance -- a morning tradition for American schoolchildren.

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He tells us that everything that we've read up to this point that has been spoken by a third-person narrator.

他把目前为止我们读到的,所有以第三人称叙述的事情都告诉我们。

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Would anybody volunteer to say a sentence, non obscene, non derogatory, that has never been spoken before on earth, ever?

有没有人自愿说个句子,不能是下流的,不敬的,得是世上从未有人说过的句子

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And obviously you and I have spoken a lot about how we can boost exports.

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They had spoken a lot about going on this trip to Egypt.

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"We've spoken a lot about about the need for the batters to score regularly and get big hundreds and double-hundreds, " he says, reflecting on a season in which six players, including himself, Joe Denly and Rob Key averaged more than 30 - yet only one scored more than 900 Championship runs.

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