If he had only known then the dreadful things that were to happen to him on account of his disobedience!

要是他能知道，因为不听话将会面临什么可怕的事情，那就好了！

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The president declined to deliver the speech himself, on account of a sore throat.

那位总统由于嗓子疼拒绝亲自发表演讲。

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We have to account for every penny we spend on business trips.

我们出公差所用的每一分钱都得报清楚。

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Gillian wrote a report of how he spent the thousand dollars: "Paid by Robert Gillian, one thousand dollars on account of the eternal happiness, owed by Heaven to the best and dearest woman on earth."

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That is to say not even the best city on Aristotle's account can afford to be without a foreign policy.

这也就说明,就算是亚里士多德笔中的最佳之城,也承受不起没有外交政策的后果。

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So we need to revise our account of what it is on the physicalist picture to say that you're dead.

我们应该重新修改一下,物理主义学上对死亡的定义。

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On Wednesday, he signed on to his Skype account to speak with a reporter.

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So early on he decided to put his company's Twitter account on hold to make his workload more manageable.

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The approaching August doldrums also put pressure on account managers to put money to work.

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