One winter morning, an employee explained why he had shown up for work 45 minutes late. "It was so slippery out that for every step I took ahead, I slipped back two."

在某个冬日的早晨，员工在向老板解释为啥迟到了45分钟：“地上太滑了，我每向前迈一步，就向后滑两步。”

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Despite my efforts, it is still very difficult to take that first step out my door every morning. Right now, winter looks a long way away!

虽然我尽了力，但是每天早上出门的第一步还是让我举步维艰。现在看起来，冬天还要好久才会到来呢！

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When I was younger I took a cold bath every morning even in winter.

我年轻时，每天早上洗冷水浴，即使在冬天也是这样。

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That winter, I even bought a twenty-pound log splitter and would go out in the backyard every morning and split wood until the sweat started steaming from my body like those horses in that Alfred Stieglitz photograph.

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