An obstacle, setback or delay means only one thing: it's not time for your goal to be completed yet.

一个障碍、挫败或延迟只意味着一件事：现在还不是你实现目标的时候。

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To set our heart on one thing at a time and give up all other thoughts is also a good way.

每次只把我们的心放在一件事上，放弃所有其他的想法，也是一个好方法。

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"He wanted to do one thing at a time," Meg says, explaining her son's delay.

“他想一次做一件事。”梅格说，解释她儿子的拖延。

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He hoped he had made the country understand one thing: the great need to forget hatred and bitterness in the difficult time of re-building that would follow the war.

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One peculiar property of this--incidentally, at every point of time this thing holds, this is time to maturity.

顺便说一下这个公式一个特别的性质,这个等式在任何时候都成立,这是贷款剩余期限

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OK. You can see that thing is cutting down the problem in half each time, which is good, but there's one more thing I need to deal with.

这很棒，但是我们还需要处理另外一件事情,让我们仔细来看看,我在开始做之前一直在说，应该先试验试验。

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So that is probably a one time thing for a lot of it.

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Are you planning on doing more of these or is this a one-time thing?

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In essence, Groupon is claiming that its massive expenditures on marketing and related customer-acquisition costs are a one-time thing, a side effect of creating an entirely new market.

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