Looking to the future, though, we asked him what the prospects are for a vaccine to prevent infection in the first place.

然而，展望未来时，我们首先问他一种预防传染的疫苗前景如何。

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We tied first place.

我们并列第一。

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It often happens that we have trouble in finding appropriate words and phrases to give expression to our mind in the first place.

首先，我们经常很难找到合适的词汇来表达我们的思想。

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"In a single generation, we've fallen from first place to twelfth place in college graduation rates for young adults.

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OK, so now the question is, how do we know the first place that this is a suitable reductant?

好的，现在的问题是，我们如何能知道第一步中,镁是一个合适的还原剂？

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In the first place, it's important that we avoid, I think, two equally unhelpful ways of responding to this.

首先很重要的是，我们要避免，我认为的两种同样无益的解析方式。

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Remember how we got inflation targets in the first place: we got them because academic opinion suggested that central banks could not really affect the underlying growth rate.

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In a sense the problem is the same as deciding which quality of ore to mine in the first place: we now need to either find richer sources to recycle from or arrange how we use these materials in the first place to facilitate recycling.

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But then if all of a sudden, we're in first place at the break, and we're still playing well, then maybe there will be some more excitement.

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