该动议的支持者们力图争取立案，然而从开始他们的对手就占了上风。

The supporters of the motion tried hard to establish their case, but from the beginning their opponents had the best of it.

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从2002年开始，中情局和联邦调查局更显著加强了监控和争取中国留学生的工作，力图从中招募合适人员作为特工。

Begin from 2002, the cia and the fbi the more significant to strengthen the monitoring and fight for Chinese students work, trying to recruit personnel as agents from right.

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So, a part of you wants to become the greatest whatever it is that you want to become and you wouldn't be here if you weren't very competitive and very eager to come out first, devoted to arete and your own version of that kind of thing.

所以 你的一部分意识想变成最伟大的人,不论你想要在哪个领域变得伟大,而且如果你没有竞争力,或不是一直争取第一,那你也不会坐在这里,力图更上一层楼,以穷千里目

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