本来的

I wanted to call it off...

我本来要取消的。。。

Jenny: I wanted to call it off...

我本来想取消的。。。

I meant to call on you, but I'm too busy.

我本来要去拜访你的，但是，我太忙了。

If I had time, I would have called you.

如果我有时间，本来是要打电话给你的。

I was supposed to meet a friend,but he had to cancel.

我本来要见个朋友的，但是他临时取消了。

"I was supposed to kill you too, but the contract was cancelled last night."

"我本来也要杀你的，可是昨天晚上合同被取消了。"

If the president had been candid from Day One, all of that could have been avoided.

如果总统曾坦率至一天所有这一切本来是可以避免的。

At the same time, carder standard system and china unit system made the modern social structure to be homogeneous while it should be heterogeneous.

另一方面，官本位和单位制使本来应该具有异质性的现代社会结构由于人为作用而呈现出许多同质性。

You could have done better, but you were too careless.

你本来可以做得更好的，但是你太粗心了。

You could have done it better, but you were too careless.

你本来能够做得更好的，但你太粗心了。

We have no common name for a mime of Sophron or Xenarchus and a Socratic Conversation; and we should still be without one even if the imitation in the two instances were in trimeters or elegiacs or some other kind of verse--though it is the way with people to tack on 'poet' to the name of a metre, and talk of elegiac-poets and epic-poets, thinking that they call them poets not by reason of the imitative nature of their work, but indiscriminately by reason of the metre they write in.

索夫农 、森那库斯和苏格拉底式的对话采用的模仿没有一个公共的名称；三音步诗、挽歌体或其他类型的诗的模仿也没有——人们把&诗人&这一名词和格律名称结合到一起，称之为挽歌体诗人或者史诗诗人，他们被称为诗人，似乎只是因为遵守格律写作，而非他们作品的模仿本质。

The relationship between communicative competence and grammar teaching should be that of the ends and the means.

交际能力和语法的关系应该是目标与途径的关系。