Some water experts are now demanding that existing infrastructure be used in smarter ways rather than building new facilities, which is increasingly considered the option of last, not first, resort.

一些水资源专家现在在要求要更明智地使用现有的基础设施，而不是建造新的设施，它逐渐被认为是最后而不是第一选择。

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What does it matter if you're not first in the trials?

预赛得不到第一又有什么关系呢？

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Thus we are not first of all judged by what we say but by what we live.

这样，最后评判我们的时候，将不会首先按照我们说过什么，而是我们过着怎样的生活。

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Poverty is not first thing that comes to mind when you think of Japan.

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Things can't become holy and can't come into contact with the holy or the sacred if they are not first pure.

事物不可能变得神圣或是与神圣有联系,如果它们连纯洁都算不上。

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Last year I listed them, and there were not that many people that had the First Edition of the text.

去年我把它们列上去的，没有那么多人,有这本书的第一版。

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None of which would have been possible had they not first accumulated their mind-boggling wealth.

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This article now ranks very high (if not first) of blogs in the world in all three keywords.

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Yet some fail to understand why Turkey did not first seek to continue the role of mediator in Syria.

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