Hurry up! It would be a shame to miss the beginning of the play.

快点儿！要是错过这出戏的开场就太可惜了。

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I missed the beginning of the play, for I was late.

我没有看到话剧的开头部分，因为我迟到了。

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At the beginning of the play Juliet is just a little girl.

戏剧一开始朱丽叶只是一个小女孩。

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Now if you would, Eva, play just the beginning of the Zarathustra or the trumpet part.

伊娃,现在能不能请你演奏,查拉图斯特拉的小号部分

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As I said at the beginning, in the philosophical literature, this has become known as the problem of dirty hands so named after a famous play written by the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre.

正如我一开始所说的，在哲学作品中,这已经作为脏手问题而闻名,自从法国哲学家萨特写下,一部非常有名的戏剧之后。

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