She arrived early to get a place at the front.

她提前到达，好在前排找个位置。

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The result is we are creating a "Lost Generation" of young people who cannot get a job or a place at university.

其结果是，我们正在创造一个“迷惘的一代”年轻人，得不到一份工作，或者在大学里找不到立足之地。

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Her wrist drips with jewelry, expensive-looking stuff, the kind you could get only at a place like Mercurio.

她的手腕上缀着首饰，看上去很贵的那种，只有在像“水星”那样的店里才能买到。

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But at the last minute he found a place to land and get gas.

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But if, at any point, I get to a place in the list where the thing I'm looking for is smaller than the element in the list, I know everything else in the rest of the list has to be bigger than that, I don't have to bother looking anymore.

比当前位置数组的元素要小,我也就知道后面的数肯定,也都比我的目标数要大了，我就不用再继续进行下去了,这意味着目标数不在这个数组中，我就可以退出了。

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One in seven pupils failed to get a place at their first choice of secondary school this year.

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But not even the claimants to new Security Council seats including Japan, Brazil and India can agree among themselves who, exactly, should get a place at the table.

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School admissions remain highly competitive in some areas, with one in seven pupils failing to get a place at their first choice of secondary school this year.

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