At that time the twelve hundred arhats, being free in mind, thought to themselves.

尔时千二百阿罗汉心自在者作是念。

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For the Chinese, they thought drinking boiled water was the easiest way to protect themselves from the harmful bacteria.

对中国人来说，他们认为喝开水是保护自己免受有害细菌侵害的最简单方法。

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He descended, nearly as eager as herself: and a considerable interval elapsed ere they had a thought to spare for any but themselves.

他下了车，几乎和她一样的热切；一段相当长的时候，他们除了他们自己以外根本没想到别人。

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He thought it was very important to make young people proud of themselves and willing to work for what they wanted.

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They thought the Klee lovers tended to be smarter than the Kandinsky lovers and the Klee lovers would devote more resources to themselves than to others.

他们认为克利派的人,比康定斯基派的更聪明，而且他们,会更乐意帮助自己群体内的人。

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This is purely speculation, but I imagine that there are at least a few members of the Academy who thought to themselves that Bigelow is repeating herself.

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This summer, people across the country -- including some of the young people with us today -- watched you compete and thought to themselves, you know what, if they can set a goal and work hard to reach it, maybe I can too, and maybe I can go a little farther and do a little better than people think I can.

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According to this pre-Darwinian notion of evolution, animals were thought to shape themselves to match their environments.

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