They always were a bad influence!

他们总是坏影响！

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Maybe they're the British as they always were, before an unusual array of factors changed them for a while into something quite peculiar.

也许他们就是历史上英国人一直的模样，直到一系列不寻常的因素在一段时间里面把他们变成了一种特殊的族群。

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Jack never wanted to stay in one place for very long, so they were always on the move.

杰克从不想在一个地方久留，所以他们总在辗转奔波。

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They looked like they had always been the weak,unhappy creatures who were bent over the doctor's table.

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Maybe it's not always the raider; it's that some employees had trusted in an implicit contract that they were offered by their employer.

也许也不都是这些公司蓄意收购者；,也许是一些雇员相信了他们雇主给他们的,暗示性承诺。

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The second thing that he found was this group, they were always asking questions, -always asking questions, initially of their boss, later of their employees, of their partners, children, parents, friends.

他发现的第二件事是，这部分人，一直在问问题，一直问问题，最初是问他们的老板，后来是问他们的雇员，他们的搭档，孩子，父母，朋友。

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"I think that prices are very high and I think they always were, " she said.

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Frankie looked, but her eyes were gray as they always were.

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The landscapes that the train crosses along the way remain as dramatic as they always were, ensuring that the longest rail journey in the US is perhaps also its most beautiful.

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