I have studied the careers of thousands of people at close hand and I can tell you that many of them do not find what they really love until they are 30 or 40.

我亲身研究过数以千计的人，并且可以告诉你很多人直到30甚至40岁都没有发现他们热衷的事情。

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Having witnessed at close hand the bloodshed in neighbouring Iraq and Lebanon, even many of Mr Assad's detractors still appear willing to settle for limited freedoms in exchange for social peace.

在近距离地见识到邻国伊拉克及黎巴嫩的血腥事件之后，一些阿萨德先生的诋毁者表示，愿意勉强接受有限的自由，以换取社会稳定。

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The property is ideally located with all local amenities close at hand.

这处房地产的位置很理想，离当地的福利设施都近。

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The military sounded confident that victory in its campaign to wipe out the Tamil Tigers is close at hand.

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The front rows of the audience observe the action at close hand, from plush waiting room seats that surround the stage.

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Millions of Americans watched Kennedy at close hand, thanks to the eye of the camera, and judged his incoherent, rambling answer to lack credibility.

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Its factories were being transformed with the introduction of Japanese production methods, observed at close hand in the transplant factories set up by Nissan, Toyota and Honda in Britain.

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