This was how things worked not very long ago.

就在不久前发生了这样的事。

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He always wanted to know how things worked.

他总想知道事物运作的原理。

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We just happened to be at the right place at the right time and things worked out.

我们只是碰巧在对的地方、对的时间，然后好事成就。

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It gave her an international platform to talk about some of those things. She actively worked for the right of women to vote in federal elections.

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He always wanted to know how things worked.

他总想知道事物运作的原理

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And Born worked on a number of things, including the Born exponent, and taught himself crystallography sort of as something to do during World War I.

玻恩也做出了许多贡献，包括玻恩指数，他自学结晶学,这大约是在一战期间。

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"He'd call and drop by the show to see how things worked, " recalls Moffitt.

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The federal-state revenue sharing via the credit was the way things worked for decades.

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Mr. MICHAEL FLORES (California Fish and Game Department): We still don't know definitively how these things worked.

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