Remember that most bestselling authors began writing when they were doing other things to earn a living.

请记住，大多数畅销书作家当初开始写作的时候都在干着其他赖以谋生的工作。

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It began to make her feel bad that some people seemed to be doing so much better than she was.

当她看到脸书上的朋友过得比她好很多，她开始觉得不开心。

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My dancing life began not because I wanted to do it, but because my mother was sick and tired of seeing me running around after school doing nothing.

我开启了舞蹈生涯，不是因为自己想跳舞，而是因为我妈妈厌烦了看到我放学后无所事事到处晃悠。

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But my job was to write about money, and doing so began to feel overly invasive, especially to Joe.

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He began to "tool around doing different things" for the next seven years and was struggling to figure out what he was going to do.

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Volvo's U.S. manager of product safety and compliance, Adam Kopstein, says his company's engineers began doing tests to simulate small-overlap crashes in the 1980s after analyzing data collected from car accidents in Sweden and other countries.

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