We were so poor before liberation that we couldn ' t afford any education for our children , it ' s lucky we dragged them up at all.

解放前我们贫穷得无法使孩子受到教育，能拉扯大就够幸运的了。

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Bridges have really changed our society and allowed us to get from one place to another in ways that we couldn't have gotten to easily before.

桥梁改变了我们这个社会,使我们能够以前所未有便捷方式,从一个地方到达另一个地方

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That's a remarkable difference--going from prioritizing among big problems to lining up newly available targets of opportunity and potential, but as the application of business analytics makes it possible to see patterns in data that we couldn't see before and answer questions we couldn't even ask before, why wouldn't we shift our thinking from solving old problems to unlocking new possibilities?

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When I was finished I wanted to go home, but we couldn't before he had done 50 more shots (at goal).

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We're trying this last year, with the quiet, to do things that we couldn't do before.

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