This is to be expected, just as the woman training for a marathon develops stronger leg muscles.

这就像女性通过马拉松训练可以增强腿部的肌肉一样。

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Deciding to run a marathon if you've never so much as walked half a mile-or to lose 50 pounds in only two months-is setting yourself up for the type of failure that will only make you want to give up.

半英里都还没走过就想跑马拉松，或是两个月内就想减掉50磅肉，这些计划终究要泡汤，只能使你放弃目标。

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Staying on top of as many job opportunities as possible is essential to finding a new job — this is a marathon, not a sprint.

保持多多申请工作机会对找份新工作是很重要的---这是场马拉松，可不是次短跑。

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The alliance between these two trade tsars (both keen on marathon-running as well as marathon telephone calls) is the linchpin of today's global trading system.

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But then again, is our paranoia that irrational if something as celebratory as the Boston Marathon is no longer a safe place to be?

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Some progress is being made, but as in a marathon, it is the second half of the race that is the most agonising.

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