They were licking their lips at the thought of clinching the deal.

他们一想到马上要做成这笔交易就显得急不可待了。

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They thought they were an example of successful fertility treatment.

他们认为他们是一个成功的生育治疗的例子。

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The first bulb to show up in the Netherlands, the merchant who received them roasted and ate them! He thought they were kind of onion.

第一批出现在荷兰的球茎被收到它们的店主烤了吃！他认为它们是某种洋葱。

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In any case,John and Alan Lomax were very dedicated to locating these what they thought of as folk geniuses.

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But this decentralized federalist structure is part of who they thought they were and who they continue to think they are.

这种联邦制分权的政治架构,是他们对自己现在及将来身份的认知

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But a lot of people didn't show up like I thought they were.

不过，也有一些我本以为会参加的人没有来。

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When benefits started, they were thought of as insurance, to protect you from certain big events in life for which you might or might not be well prepared.

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Residential and commercial rents, even in New York City, are down--not, perhaps, south of 14th Street in Manhattan, but elsewhere in the city, mere mortals are negotiating better deals with their landlords, or moving to neighborhoods they had thought were out of reach.

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Indeed, when Domestic Asset Protection Trusts were first introduced, probably a majority of the (relatively few) asset protection planners thought they were in the nature of a bad joke.

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