How many of us go through life like the elephants—believing that it was beyond our ability to do something only because we failed once or some times before?

我们中有多少人过着像大象一样的生活——仅仅因为之前失败过一次或几次，就认为自己的能力无法完成某件事？

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I 've been there some times before.

我以前曾到过那儿几次。

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He has been to Beijing for some times before.

他以前去过北京几次。

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it's not as good as helping debug, sorry, that's the wrong way of saying it's not as good at catching some things before you run them, it is easier at some times in debugging as you go along on the fly.

它在帮助我们调试方面可能不是太优秀，对不起，这么说有点不正确,它在运行前捕捉错误,可能不是那么优秀，可能边运行边调试,会更容易一些。

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