No woman had ever felt the need to take pity on him before.

之前，没有哪个女人觉得有必要同情他。

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These are people who may previously have felt the need to get a full-time job that provided insurance in order to cover themselves and their families.

这些人先前觉得为了让自己和家人得到医疗保险，有必要找到一份提供该保险的全职工作。

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Third, the interesting question is why the Tories have felt the need to get earthy and personal about Ed Miliband so early on in the political cycle.

BBC: Tories get personal about Miliband

At his State of the City address several days ago, the mayor "felt the need to evangelize what he sees as the value of the stop-and-frisk program, " Jealous said.

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The difficulty is the he inevitably has felt the need to range wide, and therefore slightly shallow, on an awful lot of issues.

BBC: Charles Kennedy