Yang Jiechi stated firmly that the Diaoyu islands had belonged to China from ancient times and in 1895 after Japan defeated the Qing Dynasty in a war.
____ he was not rich enough to buy whatever he wanted, Edison decided to make his new laboratory the best.
We still cannot persuade him to give up smoking ____ hard we tried.
____ we went those days when we were in the countryside, we were warmly welcomed.
A ____ road goes ____ from our village to the center of the town.
When his mother came in, Charlie pretended _________.