It worked out well, by making my first move, but there was a lot of groundwork to be put down beforehand that helped me make that move a little bit easier.

我首先迈出第一步很有效，但是事先，我得打下许多基础，以帮助我迈出那一步稍微容易一些。

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It is well to be reminded that Gandhi started out with the normal ambitions of a young Indian student and only adopted his extremist opinions by degrees and, in some cases, rather unwillingly.

值得一提的是，甘地起初抱得是印度青年学生的正常的雄心，只是逐渐采用了他的那些偏激的思想，在某些情况下还相当不情愿。

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An obvious compromise would be to keep the cap on, but allow some of the oil in the well to flow out into the containment systems as it was doing beforehand.

显然，要使井口处于打开状态，可能要使用折中方案，但是允许井里的部分石油像先前那样流入密封系统。

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Well, it may be hard to borrow your way out of debt, but sometimes it buys time, andtime is money.

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For those authors who have been told they have been passed over because of poor BookScan numbers, it may well be that the editor is simply chickening out of a harder conversation about quality, fit, marketing, etc.

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And so, in the meantime, a major piece of President Obama's - well, what he hopes will be his legacy legislation made it out of the Senate Judiciary Committee this week.

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