The war did not deflect him from the path he had long ago taken.

战争没有使他改变很久之前就选择的道路。

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Long long ago, there was a beautiful little girl.

很久很久以前，有一个美丽的小女孩。

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Only the sound of insects filled the air as I walked through the empty town that summer day so long ago.

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They have a very high respect for a criminal Jew, who led some kind of guerilla war and was executed long ago, somewhere in Syria.

他们非常尊敬一名犹太罪犯，他指挥了某种游击战，很久以前被处死了，就在叙利亚某处。

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That happened not too long ago, but it was just a really fantastic display of all his work.

那是不久前的事情，但它真的极好地展示了他所有的作品。

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Not long ago President Nazarbayev declared that his government would take greater control of energy resources.

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Not long ago table tennis was a game played by geeky kids in youth clubs.

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As Milton Friedman long ago observed, the best purchases are those made by people spending their own money.

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