He started to say, but didn't.

他本来想这么说，可是却没有这么做。

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But after they saw me swimming, they started to say "hi" and talk to me.

但他们看了我游泳之后，就开始跟我打招呼和交谈。

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I stopped using the word "we", and started to say what I really meant to say.

我停止使用“我们”这个词，并且开始说我真正要想说的话。

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Other experts say glass making first started four to five thousand years ago in ancient Mesopotamia, present day Iraq and Syria.

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And then I started to say, I'm studying ethics, what are the ethics have we treat the animals.

我对自己说，我是学伦理学的，我们对待动物的时候有什么伦理道德呢？

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And I'd always just hear him say "ji-geum", so I just started to say that word.

我经常听他说“ji-geum”，我现在也经常说这个词了。

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But then suddenly the watches were everywhere in the U.S., and consumers started to say, Wait a minute.

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So I started to say that, and she just cut me right off.

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On the nuclear situation in Japan, the Japanese government has started to say the situation is stabilizing for the past few days.

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