No one could figure out how he got to be so wealthy.

没人能弄清楚他是怎样变得如此富有的。

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How could you be so obstinate?

你怎么能够这样固执呢？

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How could she be so practical when he'd just told her something so shattering?

他刚对她讲了那么令人震惊的事情，她怎么还能这么务实？

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So, it could be that you're deciding, as a lawyer, how many hours you're going to spend on the job.

比方说你是个律师,你就要计划好为公司工作多长时间

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So how could death be bad?

所以，死亡怎么会是坏事呢？

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Now, it raises lots of interesting issues if a company does that and then boasts about it on the packaging or in marketing, because then people could overestimate how good those products are for them, so a lot of consumer education has to be done.

现在如果一个公司改进之后,在其包装,或市场上大肆宣扬,会引发许多争议,因为人们可能因此高估了,这些食品对其健康起到的作用,可见消费者应该对此有更多了解

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How could I be so stupid, so clueless, so unaware?

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She peered at the parents, imagining their hearts like machines, manufacturing surfeit upon surfeit of love for their children, and then wondered how something could be so awesome and so utterly powerless.

NEWYORKER: A Tiny Feast

How could you be so unchanged by death?

NEWYORKER: A Cartoon of Hurt