You could only really tell the effects of the disease in the long term, and five years wasn't long enough.

这种疾病的影响只有在长期内才能真正看清楚，而5年是不够长的。

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You could only get to it by the bridge across the creek; the surrounding trees and the steep bushy cliff behind shut it in like a house in a forest clearing.

他们爱它，因为要到达那里你只能走过小溪上的桥；而周围的树木和背后森森的陡峭悬崖让它看起来就像森林空地上的屋子一样隔绝世事。

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If you could only read my mind, you'd know by now.

你要猜得着我的想法，你现在就知道我在想什么了。

youdao

They look at you as if you're phony. I also think as an actor, you want to be able to play many parts, and if you have so much surgery done that you could only look a certain way, you're limiting the parts you're going to play."

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Only in the Roman Empire could slavery actually start being a way that you can move up in society, because you could-- if you were a talented slave, your owner might free you, probably would free you.

只有在罗马帝国，奴隶制可以成为,提高社会地位的手段，因为。。。,如果是一个能干的奴隶，主人可能会释放他，很有可能。

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So that you could see that for the ideal gas, u would not be a function of volume, but only of temperature.

所以我们可以看到对理想气体，内能不依赖于体积，而仅仅是温度的函数。

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You could only survive the many downs in football, he believed, by cultivating calm.

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They were bricklike, awkward things, and you could only speak with people located within a short range.

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