I started way back as a weightlifter.

我出道时是个举重运动员。

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I started work as a journalist and it was downhill all the way for my health.

我开始当记者后，身体每况愈下。

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I started to move around him, but he blocked my way.

我开始绕开他走，但他挡着我的路。

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Unencumbered by, I guess, the conventional wisdom, we started out at Yale on a path that I think is--fundamentally that changed the way that institutions manage portfolios.

抛开惯常思维和传统做法,我们在耶鲁开创了一条新路,一条我认为,从根本上,改变了机构投资管理方式的新路

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I only started asking this in 1996 when the stock market boom was well under way, but already 69% of my respondents, who were high-income investors, strongly agreed.

996年时我才提出这种疑问,那时股票市场一片欣欣向荣,这些受访者是高收入投资者,但69%的受访者强烈认同这点

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Then I started to think, "Is there any way that we can save the consumers' effort and integrate everything, every function, every application, every information needs that a user wishes into one box?"

于是我开始思考，有没有一种办法，使得消费者’,省下精力与时间，将所有功能，所有应用，所有信息，按照用户所希望的，整合到一个搜索框内？

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"I was really pleased the way I started, " said Ivanovic, who followed fellow former world No. 1s Serena and Venus Williams in exiting the tournament.

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When I started developing websites way back in 1995 there really were not a lot of choices other than a text editor and some good old fashion trial and error.

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And then when I started to climb again, the way my back is fused, I can't bend real well.

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