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死也不肯,从来也不
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从来没有

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AllAll,死也不肯死也不肯,从来没有从来没有,以前从未曾有过以前从未曾有过,以前从不以前从不,空前空前
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David might have shot him first, but David had never before pointed a gun at a human being, let alone killed somebody.
大卫本可能先开枪的，但他过去从未用枪对人瞄准过，更不用说杀人了。
dà wèi běn kě néng xiān kāi qiāng de , dàn tā guò qù cóng wèi yòng qiāng duì rén miáo zhǔn guò , gèng bú yòng shuō shā rén le 。
2.
The movies as well as the books of that era demonstrated a new materialistic attitude that America had never before experienced.
电影，以及那个时代的书籍，表现出一种新的美国前所未遇的贪图享乐的态度。
diàn yǐng , yǐ jí nà ge shí dài de shū jí , biǎo xiàn chū yī zhǒng xīn de měi guó qián suǒ wèi yù de tān tú xiǎng lè de tài du 。
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3.
To be able to see a bit more of her time, he even began to have never before visited a small restaurant to eat lunch. . .
为了能多一点儿时间看到她，他甚至开始去以前从未去过的小餐厅吃午饭。
wèi le néng duō yì diǎn ér shí jiān kàn dào tā , tā shèn zhì kāi shǐ qù yǐ qián cóng wèi qù guò de xiǎo cān tīng chī wǔ fàn 。
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She had never before made any allusion to the flowers, and he supposed she had never thought of him as the sender .
她过去从未提到过这些花，他以为她绝对不会想到花是他送的。
tā guò qù cóng wèi tí dào guò zhè xiē huā , tā yǐ wéi tā jué duì bú huì xiǎng dào huā shì tā sòng de 。
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5.
But gravitational lensing had never before been used in such a precise way.
但是引力透镜还从未以如此精确的方法被使用过。
dàn shì yǐn lì tòu jìng hái cóng wèi yǐ rú cǐ jīng què de fāng fǎ bèi shǐ yòng guò 。
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In the last few years, IBM has begun to open its foundries - and its research - to outside business like never before.
在最近几年中，IBM逐渐向外界开始开放自己的制造工厂和研发中心，这在以前是从未有过的事情。
zài zuì jìn jǐ nián zhōng , IBM zhú jiàn xiàng wài jiè kāi shǐ kāi fàng zì jǐ de zhì zào gōng chǎng hé yán fā zhōng xīn , zhè zài yǐ qián shì cóng wèi yǒu guò de shì qíng 。
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7.
So much energy has never before been contained in a bottle. You had better not touch it, one can never know what consequences it might have.
如此多的精力从未被包含在一个瓶子。你最好不要动它，可以永远不知道它可能有什么后果。
rú cǐ duō de jīng lì cóng wèi bèi bāo hán zài yī gè píng zǐ 。 nǐ zuì hǎo bú yào dòng tā , kě yǐ yǒng yuǎn bù zhī dào tā kě néng yǒu shén me hòu guǒ 。
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He had always loved his children but he had never before realized how much he loved them and how bad it was that he did not live with them.
他一直爱着自己的几个孩子。但是以前他从来没想过他会爱得如此的深，他们没有一起过又会如此的苦。
tā yì zhí ài zhe zì jǐ de jǐ gè hái zi 。 dàn shì yǐ qián tā cóng lái méi xiǎng guò tā huì ài de rú cǐ de shēn , tā men méi yǒu yì qǐ guò yòu huì rú cǐ de kǔ 。
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Believed to have been a great luxury, such a dish has never before been discovered in the former western Roman Empire.
该碗据信是一个大奢侈品，像这样的餐具在前西罗马帝国时期从未发现过。
gāi wǎn jù xìn shì yī gè dà shē chǐ pǐn , xiàng zhè yàng de cān jù zài qián xī luó mǎ dì guó shí qī cóng wèi fā xiàn guò 。
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Gene therapy has never before been used to treat a degenerative brain disease in humans and the success represents an important landmark.
以前基因治疗从未用于人类的神经退行性疾病，所以此研究是一个重要的里程碑。
yǐ qián jī yīn zhì liáo cóng wèi yòng yú rén lèi de shén jīng tuì xíng xìng jí bìng , suǒ yǐ cǐ yán jiū shì yī gè zhòng yào de lǐ chéng bēi 。
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