我曾认为做饭和料理家务是琐碎简单的工作。

I thought that cooking and housekeeping were unimportant, easy tasks.

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人们曾认为法老是神。

The people thought that the pharaoh was a god.

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在这段时间里，大多数科学家曾认为该地区不适合人类居住。

This is the time period in which most scientists formerly believed the area to be inhospitable for humans.

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Roman doctrine, of course, had prized the state of celibacy, insisting that it was the superior state over marriage.

当然罗马教义曾赞扬独身主义，坚持认为那是比婚姻更优良的状态。

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And what is more, they actually invited me at once to join them, as though politics and I were a fit match.

更甚之，他们其实曾邀请过我加入他们，因认为我是块政治的料子。

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We used to think they were a library of a sectarian community; now I think they think it was a pottery factory or something.

我们过去曾认为经文应该在一个教派群体的文库中;,现在我想大家认为它存在于一个类似于陶瓷厂的地方。

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