My friend Leo makes up weak and poor excuses whenever there is something he doesn't want to do.

每当我的朋友里奥有不想做的事情时，他会编造一些站不住脚的借口。

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Once he made up his mind to do something, there was no stopping him.

他一旦下定决心做什么事，没有什么可以阻止他。

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"Assuming you're right," he said, "there's not much I can do about it, is there?"

“假定你是对的，”他说，“我对此能做的也不多，对吗？”

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He said:"There are things which you have said to me that I do not like.

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He writes home, "I do not intend to shirk now that there is really something to fight for; I mean freedom.

他在家书中道,"我不打算逃避,我必须为之一战,为自由而战

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There it is. He used the prism spectrograph to analyze his results. So what do we have here?

在这里，他用了棱镜分光图来分析他的结果,得到些什么呢？

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He says there was little he could do.

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He knew there was nothing he could do.

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Architectural adviser and urban planner David MacKay said he also had concerns, but there was nothing he could do as plans were approved before his Vision For Plymouth scheme.

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