Gretel thought English children were very lucky.

格莱托觉得英国的孩子非常幸运。

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I thought English was your mother language because you spoken very good English with reporters just now.

我以为英语是你的母语因为刚才你英语讲得很好。

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We foolishly thought that everyone would speak English.

我们真蠢，竟以为人人都会说英语。

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After six Eurostar trains broke down in or near the tunnel that runs under the English Channel, the system has been suspended while engineers troubleshoot the electrical problems thought to have been brought on by condensation.

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I'll just tell you that Tennyson thought cellar door the two most beautiful words in the English language were "cellar door" and that audible beauty was his preoccupation in the making of poetry.

我想说的是，塔尼森认为,英语中最动人的两个词是“,这是他对于追求诗歌听觉效果的执念。

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John Milton will remain unique in English letters for the degree of thought that he gave to the shape of his literary career, or actually to the notion of a career at all.

约翰弥尔顿在英语文学方面的影响是十分独特的,因为他深刻的思想塑造了他的文学事业，或者说，塑造了他对事业的看法。

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And beyond it is a still more alarming thought: suppose English-majority areas in western and southern Quebec were to start taking seriously the idea that what Crees can demand ordinary Anglo-Canadians can too?

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Perhaps if other English clubs thought similarly we would have more technical players.

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Although outsiders are sometimes enthusiastic about their children learning Gaelic, language campaigners admit that many locals have long thought that it is English that matters most for their bairns' future.

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