It's easy to feel inadequate when you compare yourself to the very best, but even they weren't born with those skills and they wouldn't have them if they never started.

人们很容易跟那些最好的比较起来发现自己的各种不充分和缺失，但从来没想过，任何人都不是天生都拥有这些技能的，如果他们不从开始做起，永远也走不到这一天。

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And let's be frank: If your child hasn't started Mandarin classes by third grade, he or she will never amount to anything.

坦白讲，如果你的孩子三年级了还没有开始学习普通话，他或她将不会有什么出息。

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They knew that I was down so deep that if they started to dig with shovels, they’d never reach me in time.

他们知道我被埋在地下很深的地方,如果一开始就用铲子挖,绝对没法及时把我挖出来。

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If it started blowing the other way, they would never reach land.

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