I thought, "Wow, what a good idea."

我想: “哇，多妙的一个主意。”

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The monkey thought hard and had an idea.

猴子努力想了想，有了一个主意。

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We both thought that all in all it might not be a bad idea.

我们俩都认为总的来说这可能不是个坏主意。

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Janai Nelson and Crystal Granderson-Reid thought of the idea for the dolls during a play date for their children.

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This will kind of bring some of these factors together, along with the idea of what people thought they were.

这样可以让这些因素结合起来,并沿着自我认知的思路讲下去

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Now in fairness, that particular problem kind of happened because so many companies ended up running so much code for many more years than the programmers actually thought they would be running it, but the idea is still the same.

公平起见，那个问题有时会发生,因为实际上，很多企业在这么多年里运行了,比程序员多得多的代码,虽然他们将运行它，但那个构想还是一样的。

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We thought the idea had been put in the long grass until after the Olympics.

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"I thought the idea that trees had souls was a little hokey growing up, " says Yarnall.

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For many years, so-called Chicago School economists thought the idea of tying was absurd.

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