We used to be very good friends.

我们过去曾是很要好的朋友。

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I used to get along very well with my cousin and we used to be very good friends.

我过去同我的表弟相处得很好，我们曾经是好朋友。

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I used to be very good at physics and saw no practical need to learn English. So I believed I could also be successful without learning English.

以前我的物理很厉害，我认为没有什么实际需要去学习英语，因此那时我相信不学英语，我同样能成功。

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If you've never seen it, it's a Kirk Douglas movie that's a good movie, and it's about the mutinies on the Western Front, and it's very good. We used to say, well come to 101 and it'll be a film that'll be shown at 8 p.M.

你要是从来没看过,这是一部科克·道格拉斯的电影,好电影,是关于西线战士反叛的故事,非常好,我们总说,欢迎来101教室晚上八点有电影

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I think you'll find "I used to" to be a very good pattern for describing

你会发现，“I used to” 句型用于描述时非常有用。

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Failing that, they at least think it would be a very good thing if it did not have to be used this side of the German election in the autumn.

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Neither golden nor very tasty, the hash browns are a shadow of what they used to be, and only look good insofar as the scrambled eggs quite simply look inedible.

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