Smith told Bailey he didn"t have the money and couldn"t afford the time away from work that a jail sentence would require. He could have been sentenced to 30 days in jail or fined $325.

按照有关法律的规定，史密斯应当被判处30天监禁或是交纳325美元的罚款，但他曾经向贝利表示，自己既没有足够的钱来交这笔罚款，也不可能脱离工作岗位那么长时间用于蹲监狱。

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The study, carried out by Tesco Baby, found that 67 per cent of mothers believe they would have to give up work if they didn t receive help from Team Mom.

该调查由“乐购宝贝”开展，结果显示，67%的受访妈妈认为，如果没有“妈妈团”的帮助，自己就得辞职。

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When I was nearly twenty years old, they insisted that I learn a profession even though we were a rich family, and I really didn't have to work at all.

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That didn't work. Well they couldn't figure out what was wrong. And they spent a long time trying to debug the program.

调试这个程序,那时候当然不叫调试了,然后他们发现了问题。

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You could tell your friend that you've tried it and it didn't work by using the "I've already" pattern.

你可以用“I've already”句型告诉你朋友，你已经用过了，却没什么效果。

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All of this isn't to say that in the decade just ended that certain investors didn't make huge bets that didn't work out.

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Keoni Bayer, 41, of Astoria, also had a few issues with broken kiosks and codes that didn't work, but said the technical issues didn't bother him so much.

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The substantive part of that didn't work - an issue that I covered last year.

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