My daughter, Jane, never dreamed of receiving a letter from a girl of her own age in Holland.

She never thought of it again, but ten months later, she received a letter from a girl in Holland.

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I have just received a letter from my brother, Tim.

收到来信

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Last Tuesday he received a letter from the local police.

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I have just received a letter from my old school, informing me that my former headmaster, Mr. Stuart Page, will be retiring next week.

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He gets a good salary, but he always borrows money from his friends and never pays it back.

借

He has never borrowed money from me.

I have never borrowed any money from you

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they had escaped from the paper bag and had taken complete possession of the hall!

它们从纸袋里逃出来，占据了整个大厅

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An all-night party on New Year's Eve provided me with a good excuse for not carrying out either of these new resolutions on the first day of the year,

excuse from/for理由借口

新年前夕一个整夜的party在新年头一天为我提供了一个很好的不执行这两项任务的理由

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I had to think of a way of preventing him from following me around all morning.

我必须想一个不让他一整个上午都缠着我的办法

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The journey is so smooth that there is nothing to prevent you from reading or sleeping.

旅程是如此的平稳以至于没有什么能影响你阅读和睡觉

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Knowing that the industrious ant lives in a highly organized society does nothing to prevent us from being filled with revulsion when we find hordes of them crawling over a carefully prepared picnic lunch.

知道勤奋的蚂蚁生活在具有高度组织性的社会里，也阻挡不了当我们看到大群蚂蚁在我们精心准备的午间野餐上爬行内心充满的厌恶

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Now they have had special cages made to protect them from these monsters.

现在他们做了特别的笼子用来保护他们免受这些怪物的侵害

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To protect themselves from the icy water, they had to wear special rubber suits.

为了在冰冷的水里保护自己，他们必须穿戴特殊的橡胶衣服

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Sweden has evolved an excellent system for protecting the individual citizen from highhanded or incompetent public officers.

瑞典已经发展了一种完善的制度以保护每个公民不受专横的和不称职的政府官员的欺压

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After having been wounded towards the end of the war, he had been sent to hospital and was separated from his unit.