We are so close to the end. Back in June, we gathered by a beach in California, a motley bunch of 14 runners, and took the first steps eastwards in the LA to NY footrace.

在六月份的时候，我们一行14个各色人等集合到加州海滩，跨出了洛杉矶到纽约长跑的第一步。

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First a house took a direct hit and then the rocket exploded.

首先一幢房子被直接击中，接着火箭弹爆炸了。

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He took the first road that offered, and soon put the village behind him.

他选择了第一条路，很快就把整个村庄抛在了身后。

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Professor Robinson says it is not clear when the first marriage between a black person and a white person took place.

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There's the vector, and again you'll see this in your handout, says I only took the first item.

你们同样可以在讲义上看到这个向量,意思是我只拿了第一种物品。

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And I took a class when I was a freshman, called the First Year Seminar,

我大一的时候还上过一门课叫新生研讨会，

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After the passage of the landmark Civil Rights Act, I worked to integrate USDA county offices and took the first group of black 4-H youth to compete in a state completion.

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But Safin has also been nowhere near the player who blew everyone away in the Paris Masters a couple of weeks ago, and Hewitt took the first set 6-4.

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In October 2008, under the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act, Congress and the Treasury Department took the first steps to limit compensation at companies receiving investments under the Troubled Asset Relief Program.

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