In his first years of high school, Gabriel would look pityingly at the music students, struggling across the campus with their heavy instrument cases, turning up at school for practice hours before anyone else had to be there.

在高中的头几年，加布里埃尔会可怜地看着那些学音乐的学生，他们带着沉重的乐器箱在校园里艰难地穿行，比其他人都早几个小时来到学校练习。

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Before Baidu expands, however, it needs to answer an obvious question in an age when even the most transparent of Internet companies are struggling to maintain the faith of their users.

在百度还没有扩张之前，哪怕是最透明的互联网公司都在努力维护用户信仰的时候，百度要回答的首要问题是：为什么人们要相信百度？

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The old international economic order was struggling to keep up with change before the crisis.

经济危机爆发之前，旧的国际经济秩序奋力紧跟变化。

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But those in the middle, the vast majority of Americans, they had been struggling to keep up before the recession hit.

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"More city graduates and middle class families are burdened by student loans than ever before and are struggling to repay a higher amount of debt than ever before, " Gillibrand said in a statement.

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Much of Iraq's oil infrastructure was struggling to function, even before the war.

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