Huang said that he felt almost defeated by the hard life, but he still didn't give up learning.

黄说，艰苦的生活几乎把他打败了，但他仍然没有放弃学习。

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There was one day in particular, I will always remember, I was feeling a bit down, almost defeated.

我永远忘不了那特别的一天。

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The motion was defeated, but, astonishingly, almost half of David Cameron’s backbench MPs defied his call for them to vote against it.

这项动议最后未获通过，但让人感到惊讶的是，将近一半的卡梅伦后座议员们没有遵从他的倡议去投反对票。

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And that's why I would've voted against the Constitution, I encouraged people to vote against the Constitution, and I know almost nobody, except professors in Paris and Lyon, who are for that Constitution that was defeated a year ago May twenty-ninth-- so,there.

这就是我为什么投票反对欧盟宪法条约,我鼓励人们投反对票,我知道除了那些巴黎和里昂的学究们,几乎没人支持,欧盟宪法条约,而他们在一年前的五月二十九日落败,就是这样

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