Do first things first.

永远先做最重要的事情。

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The first is the first reason most things in life do or don't happen: money.

第一个原因就是钱，就是它首先决定了生活里大部分事情的可能性。

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Start on them immediately. First thing you do when you start working: start on the first of your three important tasks. Don't do little things. Just start.

马上行动。你开始工作后的第一件事：着手完成那三件重要事务中的第一件。切勿去做琐碎的事情。务必立刻开始。

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During the first days of his administration, he listed the things he planned to do as president.

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I know this is a simple example, but when you mature as a programmer, one of the first things you should do when you sit down to tackle some problem is write something like this pseudo code.

我知道这是个很简单的例子，但是当你们成长为一名程序员后，当你们碰到问题后第一件事情就是,该写一些类似于,伪代码的东西。

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The first step to insight is to ask questions like why do things fall down and not up?

起初的洞察力是问问题,为什么物体坠地而不是上升？

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The medical brain trust encouraged Sorger to do two things: first reduce the amount of vibration transferred to the rider.

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The temporary nature of the question makes it possible to do two things: first, concede the legitimacy of the other side during the election, and second, come together enough to make progress after it.

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"The thing that people want to do is settle back in, so one of the first things they do is try to clean up, " says Dr. Joe Guarisco, systems chief of emergency services at Ochsner Health System, which operates in the New Orleans area.

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