这并不是第一次尝试修复曾经牢固的关系。

It was not the first attempt to repair a once solid link.

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一个更有可能的解释是，他不是第一次与大众集团主席狡猾的费迪南德·皮希发生冲突。

A likelier explanation is that he clashed, not for the first time, with the chairman of the Volkswagen Group, the wily Ferdinand Piech.

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这个特殊差异使他们产生分歧不是第一次，也不会是最后一次。

It wasn't the first time that this particular difference had divided them and it wouldn't be the last.

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Now this isn't the first time that we have in Milton the representation of the turning of a person to marble.

这不是第一次,在弥尔顿的表述中把人向石头转换。

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So realize you don't have to get it right the first time, but you have to listen and watch to what actually those problems are and that is one of the roles your teaching fellows play.

请认识到，并不是要你第一次就把事情搞对，但是你必须听听，看看,问题是到底什么，这也是你们的助教,扮演的一个角色。

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that the actor playing Comus in this first and only performance in the seventeenth century was none other than our John Milton himself.

在17世纪,演员第一次也是唯一一次扮演Comus的,不是别人正是我们的弥尔顿。

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