Maybe my hopes for the iPhone curdled in the time it took for my perfectly good T-Mobile plan to expire so I could switch to balky AT&T and purchase one.

或许我对iphone的期望恰巧在固定在一个特定时间，就是我那不错的完美的T-mobile套餐/计划快到期了，所以我可以转到蹩脚的AT&T买一个。

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Dressed in only a T-shirt and jeans, I borrowed my friend's car and drove to the site, thinking it was a small fire that would be contained by the time I got there.

我只穿了T恤和牛仔裤，借了朋友的车开到现场，心想应该只是一场小火，等我到那里时就该控制住了。

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I hired him as a part-time instructor at my martial arts studio - he ran t 'ai chi classes and I taught taekwondo.

我聘他做了我武术工作室的业余教练——他教太极，我教跆拳道。

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"My suspicion is at this moment in time, that that won't happen.

VOA: standard.2010.06.18

Okay. I'm going to start even though it's still in flux here 'cause I don't want to lose my time.

好的，我又要开始讲了,尽管大家还没坐定,但是我不想浪费时间。

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I was just, I didn't get really star-struck, and I didn't get really, I came here to like take my time and take my time.

我只不过……并没有被纽约新鲜刺激的事物冲昏了头，并没有为之着迷，我在这儿一直都不紧不慢地做自己的事情。

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What am I supposed to do because it wasn't my time?

CNN: 2 would-be passengers feel relief, sadness: 'It could have been me'

And if I hadn't had my time with Bergman, I certainly would not be here today.

WSJ: Max von Sydow | His Silence May Be Golden | Cultural Conversation by David Mermelstein

"I can't spend all my time looking at this standards issue and doing the job at the council, so I thought the best thing to do was to temporarily stand down for two to three weeks to deal with this matter and then get back to running what is regarded by the Audit Commission as one of the best-run councils in the country".

BBC: Derrick Murphy