I couldn't help but think how ironic it was that my life almost ended in a convenience store and now on the date "7-11" we were about to bring a new life into this world.

我忍不住想命运真让人啼笑皆非，它几乎让我在那家便利店里丢了性命，而在一个命名为“7·11”的日子里它却让我迎来新生命的出世。

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He recalls that the working class savings that his parents had made their entire life was being spent on his tuition on a college he says was as almost as expensive as Stanford.

他回忆道，他父母毕生的积蓄被他用来上一个和斯坦福差不多贵的大学。

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Sure, there are almost 7 billion people on the Earth, but you can still make a difference either in your life or another.

当然，有近70亿人在地球上，但你仍然可以使你的生活与众不同。

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More deeply, the competing instincts that run through his government on the one hand, a bold, impatient desire to fix the state, on the other a deep, almost genetic comfort with life at the apex of the British Establishment co-exist within the prime minister himself.

ECONOMIST: The Cameron government

It takes a particular kind of person to risk his life on a daily basis, facing incredible dangers at almost every turn.

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Simons: In business or in personal life, we encounter things almost on a daily basis.

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