"I had a hard time opening the bag," recalls Wittman with a laugh, "what with there being no knives in the room!"

“我费了很大劲儿才打开袋子，”惠特曼笑着回忆，“因为房间里没有刀！”

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Shoppers began arriving long before the 10am opening time.

离上午10点开门时间还早，顾客就陆陆续续地来了。

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You will find the standard opening, "once upon a time".

你会发现标准的开头是“很久很久从前”。

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He began to work on one of his long-time dreams - opening a sports center for the young people of San Juan.

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Radovan Karadzic says , he will not attend the opening day of his trial because he needs more time to prepare his defense.

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"So this could be, certainly it was heralded at the time of the Geneva meeting, as a breakthrough in terms of opening channels more widely with the Iranians."

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With strong emotional opposition to Obama never far from his mind, Father John had a difficult time opening himself up to the idea that Obamacare has any potential merits.

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For example, if there are two well qualified candidates for a job who each have disabilities and can only work part time and a manager has only one full-time opening, does that manager have the authority to make a decision to create two part-time positions in lieu of the one full-time position so that the two people with the disabilities can share the job?

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And yet, it looked as if the bulls had everything going their way by the time the opening bell rang.

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