I've always wanted to be an actor but Dad wouldn't hear of it.

我一直想当演员，但爸爸总是不同意。

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The marriage was a failure and they both wanted to be free of it.

这段婚姻是个失败，他们俩都想从中解放出来。

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He wanted to be over the line of the ridge before the sun had risen.

他想赶在太阳升起前翻过那山脊。

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He said the United States must build up its sea power,too, if it wanted to be a great nation.

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So somewhere, maybe in pre-incarnational time before Franny became Franny, she wanted to be an actress.

可能是在神灵化身之前的时代,在弗兰尼变成弗兰尼之前，她想要成为演员。

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and I knew if I wanted to be good, as good as I wanted to be, I needed to come here.

而且我知道，如果我想变得更好，变得和我想的一样好，我就得到这里来。

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Coolidge thought that if a newcomer wanted to be American, he deserved to be.

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He says they wanted to be in social games for both original and derivative IP.

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From the first, my wife and I wanted to be immersed in Israeli culture and thought.

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