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Mike Leahy used to be a motorcycle mechanic, but after 10 years of grease and gears he decided to go back to school.

迈克莱希曾是一个摩托车修理工，但经过10多年与油脂和齿轮打交道之后，他决定回到学校。

And the only reason that I'm not going to do that is because I get quite a few of these attacks so my skin is more leathery than it used to be.

而我不这么做的唯一原因是，我受到太多这样的攻击了，导致我的脸皮比以前厚了许多。

"It used to be that a chance to eat burgers and fries with your friends was enough," said Jankovskis, director of research at Oakbrook Investments in nearby Lisle, which owns a million shares of McDonald's stock.

过去，和朋友在一起吃点汉堡和薯条就可以了。

In just the same way, a couple of hundred years ago, poor old women used to be burned for witchcraft when they could not even work enough magic to get themselves a square meal.

用自己的手工作的人们在某种程度上都很难见到，而且他们的工作越是重要，他们就越难被人们瞧见。

On Sunday evenings we used to be permitted to play, if we did not make much noise.

星期天的晚上，只要我们不弄出太多的声音，我们是可以玩的。

Petra, whose dream job used to be doctor, who later on moved to Mecklenburg as a civil engineer, refused further cooperation in 1983:"Learning how to cope with life is something you can't learn at school."

原本梦想成为医生的佩特拉，后来搬走，从事土木工程，并在 1983 年拒绝再接受拍摄，她於 1975 年表示「学习怎麼去处理我的人生问题，是在学校里学不到的。

A fish dealer named Tsai, who has been going crazy lately as the wholesale price of milkfish has plummeted to about NT$28, says with exasperation: Milkfish used to be a very expensive item, which people only got when recovering from an operation or after having a baby.

最近为了虱目鱼的批价一斤已经降到二十八元左右的成本价而伤透脑筋的蔡姓业者感慨地表示：「过去虱目鱼是很高贵的东西，开刀和坐月子的人才吃的。

Used to be the student of Joe Morello,and went on to attend the University of North Texas.While at UNT, he played in, toured, and recorded with the famed One O'clock Lab Band.

曾拜师乔-摩若罗并进入北德克萨斯州大学学习，参与各种演出，举行巡演并与著名的一点钟实验室乐队共同录音。

I said to her, I used to be optimistic, but as I grew up, I realized that I was very na?

这就是他们的分别﹐也是我们的不同。

According to this narrative, Mr Reid, who used to be a typically Nevadan—ie, moderate—Democrat, took a sharp turn left when he became the Senate's party leader in 2005 and now represents liberal excesses.

依照她的说法，过去曾是标准的内华达州民主党人的雷德先生，在2005年成为参议院民主党领袖后突然改走左派路线，现在所代表的是那些自由派分子。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。