My initial reaction was to decline the offer.

我最初的反应是要婉言谢绝这个提议。

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Honestly, if we got stuck in the rut of “hi”, “hello”, “how are you?” and “what's going on?” you will fail to give the initial jolt to the conversation that's can make it so memorable.

老实说，如果我们过度使用“嗨”，“你好”，“你好吗？”和“最近还好吗？”这些问候语，你将无法给谈话带来最初的激情，也就无法让谈话变得令人难忘。

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Shenwu puts up the initial investment to install a heat exchanger that preheats the air going into the furnace, slashing the client's fuel costs.

申武投资初期安装了一个热交换器，将进入炉内的空气预热，降低了客户的燃料成本。

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But even after that, even after our first two records which came out in nineteen seventy, our only initial goal was to make one record which we thought would be a classic in a field.

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So then, going from the initial to final states with a red path, ou start with an isobaric processand then you end with an isothermal process.

因此沿着,这条红色路径，你从一个等压过程开始,以一个等温过程结束。

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so we're going to use this concept of the path to go from the initial point to the end point.

在处理状态函数时,路径的选取。

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He would occasionally write a small initial to indicate the book belonged to him.

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For example, for Carbon-14, it would take 5730 years for the 50% of the initial remaining to turn up to lose its capability in radioactive decay in order to have 50% of what has remained after the initial remaining to activate radioactive dating.

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But the arrangement that led to the initial decision to grant the exemption had not been reviewed in accordance with the Maritime and Coastguard Agency's (MCA) procedures.

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