她曾经在一个呼叫中心担任话务员，打陌生推销电话推销分时度假。

She had worked as a call centre operator making cold calls for time-share vacations.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

他曾经考虑过在新斯科舍省沿海购买属于自己的小岛。

He had once looked into buying his own island off Nova Scotia.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

我曾经在伦敦居住过。

I used to live in London.

《牛津词典》

Langston Hughes's poetry comes out of this experience in a community of black intellectuals and artists it created specifically in Harlem.

休斯的诗歌灵感来源于他曾经在一个,有着大量黑人知识分子和艺术家的社区的居住经验,在哈莱姆居住时的影响尤为明显。

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I live in an area called Cobble Hill, which was an Italian neighborhood at one point, and it changed.

我住在一个叫科布尔山的地方，那儿曾经是个意大利住宅区，后来它变了。

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Interestingly, towards his death, I had the chance to meet him, And I asked him... He knew he was dying.

在他去世前，我曾经去拜访他，我问他。。。，他知道他就要离开人世。

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