But then something happened that destroyed any chance of getting California peacefully.

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One can never come before something that, of course, has already happened, but this fiction of an impossible firstness is something that Milton is working very hard to accomplish here.

一个人绝不可能先于，已经发生的事情，但弥尔顿在这里就是要,努力达成这种不可能的先知。

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He was not blind, he was not deaf, he was not retarded, but something else happened to him.

他并没有失明,没有失聪,也没有变成弱智,但在他身上却发生了一些其它变化

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As Bob Dylan would say in effect, "Something has happened, but it's not something new.

鲍勃迪伦事实上会说，某些事情发生了，但是它并不是新的。

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If I now say, I'm going to go ahead and change the radius of this, something, my polar form did it right, but what happened to the Cartesian form?

如果我现在说，我要去改变这里的半径,一些这样的操作，我的极坐标形式，进行了正确的改动？

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Something terrible has happened with the American diet and it's not just happened in America, but country after country, after country is changing to follow America's example.

美国人的饮食正发生着一些可怕的状况,而且不仅在美国,一个,一个又一个国家,正在以美国为标准进行着饮食调整

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Herbert Hoover as president understands as president that something terrible has happened, but fundamentally the policies in place are as those of ```and every president before, small federal government, and we see signs that the market began to correct itself.

赫伯特，胡佛作为总统,明白，作为总统,糟糕的事情发生了，但根本上政策,是和之前总统，小型联邦政府，我们看见迹象,市场开始自我修正。

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Rather, what happened is you heard English and--but the capacity grew in your head and something a lot more similar to the development of arms or legs or a visual system.

相反,你听到了英语,你脑中的英语能力得到增长,这个和手臂,下肢,或是视觉系统的发育很相似

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