In these rituals they lighted fires and deposited broken vessels to mark the ending of a particular phase in the life of the building and to celebrate the new beginning.

在这些仪式中他们会点起火来，并堆起坏的容器，标志着这个建筑生命中某个阶段的结束并庆祝这个新的开始。

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Building these skills within the team may take some time at the beginning, which leads to project delay.

在团队中培养成这些技能最初要花些时间，这导致了项目延迟。

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In the beginning, the focus of a startup must be on building a great product and finding product market fit.

在创业最初，创业者必然是聚焦于开发一个很酷的产品，并且挖掘市场立足点。

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The damaged building James Rouse was inspecting became the beginning of Boston's famous Faneuil Hall.

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Hobbes is typically concerned with the foundations of this new science, getting the building blocks right from the beginning.

霍布斯特别关注,这门新科学的奠基，从一砖一瓦开始建筑。

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Nation building,he says, is a long-term process and 10 years is just the beginning.

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As for gas prices, analyst Kevin Reilly says Detroit is beginning to adapt by building smaller, more fuel-efficient SUVs.

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Stories are beginning to appear about women building networks of close friends to share household and home care costs, to advocate for one another, and to provide the emotional support that might otherwise come from a spouse or child.

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But we have pursued a policy from the beginning of this administration of building cooperative relationships with the Chinese and the Russians and, frankly, those efforts have yielded concrete benefits that have served U.S. interests as well as Chinese and Russian interests.

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