They were beautiful instruments, but never felt quite right.

这些乐器可谓美轮美奂，但我总觉不对劲。

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I held up the paper. They were beautiful characters indeed.

我拿起纸来看，这两个字确实很美。

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They were beautiful but I no longer had enough energy to forage through my bags for the camera.

山峰美丽，但是我已经没有力气从包里掏照相机了。

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Some were very beautiful. They included religious buildings in Malaysia and old military forts in India.

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They were bigger, they were stronger, they were tougher, they were faster, they were more beautiful, they lived longer. Those were the great old days and then there's us, we, poor miserable wretches.

那时的人们更高大,更强壮,更顽强,他们速度更快,长得更帅,活得更长,这就是那些伟大的往昔岁月,之后就出现了穷苦悲惨可怜的希腊人

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They were beautiful documents full of jargon and gee-whiz ideas.

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"They were beautiful people, " he said.

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And he was a painter, and he was painting landscapes of the Chechen countryside, and they were absolutely beautiful.

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