但他们设想错了。

But they were wrong.

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但是对他们大多数来说，自由已经不像他们设想的那样了。

But for most of them, freedom was not as they had hoped.

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他们设想的仅仅是一个能够开箱即用的包装好的 PC 通信产品。

They envisioned a shrink-wrapped PC communications product that would run right out of the box.

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The writers on the syllabus consistently try to imagine a way to make those claims, make those claims for the primacy and the importance of what they do.

大纲里的作家一直在尝试,设想出一种方法来提出要求，把他们写的书放在首要地位,使他们的要求得到重视。

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The thing is" is the pattern that we use in a sentence to stop people on their tracks.

当你想阻止某人在他们设想的路上走下去的时候，可以使用“The thing is”句型。

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So, you must imagine these are successive kings who are being buried in this, what must have been, sacred soil.

因此,你必须设想他们是被埋葬在,这块圣土中的历任国王

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