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The electronic key card to Julie's room would not work.

朱莉房间的门卡不能用了。

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The washing machine would not work because of a defect in the switch.

这台洗衣机的开关有问题，不能用了。

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Many died of disease. After more than a month of digging, engineers decided that the canal would not work.

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If you tried to do one alone it would not work, so we decided to divide it up imperfectly and there may be some repetition between our two courses.

非要分开单独来学的话是不可行的,所以我们只能退而求其次,分割后的两门课可能会有重复的部分

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All heat couldn't get successfully converted into work That would be desirable, but it's not possible.

都变成功,把全部热量变成功是非常令人期待的，但是这是不可能的。

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Initially, NPR executives were worried that such a wide-ranging effort would not work on the Web.

WSJ: The Improbable Rise of NPR Music

By contrast, Home would not work on the iPhone without approval from Apple Inc.

NPR: Facebook Barges Into Google Turf With Home

Should McCain have declared that he would not work alongside these men because of their past?

CNN: Commentary: Why Ayers case is risky for McCain-Palin