It's a Catch-22 situation here. Nobody wants to support you until you're successful, but without the support how can you ever be successful?

这就是一个相互矛盾的困窘。没有人想要支持你除非你已经成功了，但是如果没有人支持，你怎么可能成功呢？

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Most teachers encourage personal examples because they are easier to tell and more persuasive to the reader, but you can still score high without them.

大多数老师鼓励学生举自己的例子，因为这些例子更容易讲述，对读者更有说服力，但是即使没有这些例子你仍然可以获得高分。

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After all, where else can you leave school with a decent degree—but without a lifetime of debt?

毕竟，还有哪里可以让你在离开学校时拿到一个体面的学位，但又不会背负一辈子的债务呢？

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But it's very important because without it you have nothing."

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I won't be able to show you what a market does unless I have stocks, but I can look at what an individual stock does without having a market.

我不会在没有股票的时候,就给你讲股市应该是怎么样的，但是我可以在没有股市的情况下,先去看单独的股票。

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Well, that matters to us, but the trouble is, without predictability you don't know where to put the peak.

那对我们很重要，但问题是，没可预见性你就不知道巅峰放在哪点。

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Once you have a media message, you still must answer questions, but how do you do that without losing control of the interview?

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You can do everything without paying, but you can do it better when you pay.

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You're right that there's no CDMA networks in the UK, but you aren't without options.

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