She got tired of having so many things to take care of and couldn' t even find a good reason for doing all the routine work at home.

她开始厌倦于应对种种杂事，甚至找不到一个做家务的理由。

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They never said you can't do it because you're a woman, so it never occurred to me that I couldn't do it" But she says things are starting to look better for women composers.

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We designed a lot of new materials that could be used to build things that couldn't have been done otherwise.

工程师们设计了多种材料来造出,前所未有的东西

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And that's when, if you had everybody come to the theater for a big debate about something, you could still have people voting on certain things that the city might decide to do, although they couldn't rule themselves completely by themselves.

所以当时，如果所有人到剧院,对某一问题进行辩论，还是可以通过投票,决定某些事情，虽然他们无法进行完全的民主统治。

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Dayton and Winebaum insist things couldn't be better, and they have no plans to adjust their business strategy.

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Things couldn't be much more different than the last boom.

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But that doesn't mean things couldn't have been better.

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