我滑了一下，但挣扎着站稳了脚跟。

I slipped and struggled to regain my footing.

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他刚建立起自己的公司，但要站稳脚跟还得花上一段时间。

He has just set up his own business but it will take him a while to get established.

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此后,联想一直试图在不断增长的海外市场站稳脚跟。

Since then it has been trying to gain a foothold in growing markets overseas.

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And so it doesn't seem plausible to suggest that we people must not be physical, merely physical, because after all, we can reason and no machine can reason.

所以,人不是物理对象,这一观点似乎并不能站稳脚跟,因为毕竟,我们人能推理而机器不能

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back when America was first getting its feet and like, started to write its own literature.

那个时候的美国刚刚站稳脚跟准备创作自己的文学。

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