我们没有反击，但也没有退却。

We did not fight back, but we did not turn back.

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即使在我陷入重重困境中，我没有退却。

Even if I got into troubles, I didn't give in.

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马吕斯绝没有退却的意思，他转向安灼拉，他那出自肺腑的激越的声音爆发出来了。

Marius felt no desire to retreat; he turned towards Enjolras, and his voice burst forth with a vibration which came from a quiver of his very being.

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So if you end up not doing well, the moral of the story is not to go running off and dropping the class, but to figure out what you did right, what you didn't do right, how to make the second paper better and the third paper stronger, again.

所以如果你们最终没有得到好成绩，这个课程不是让你们退却或是退课，但是去想想你所做的对的事，和不对的事，和怎么样让接下来的论文写得更好。

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