Do not make a bad start turn into a self fulfilling prophecy for a bad ending.

不要将一个坏的起点作为一个坏的结束这样自我实现的预言。

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That will make it hard for any new reality show—good or bad—to get a strong start, he says.

他说，那将使得任何新的真人秀类节目，无论好坏，都举步维艰。

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Start from the assumption that the person isn’t a bad person, but just did something wrong. What could he have been thinking, what could have happened to him in the past to make him do what he did?

假设这个人从开始不是一个坏人，但是只是做了一些错事，他有没有想过，他过去的所作所为会引发什么？

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Warner Bros. that good word-of-mouth could help make up for a bad start.

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Els recovers from a bad start to make par and halve the hole.

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If the American people feel that trade is just a one-way street, where everybody is selling to the enormous U.S. market but we can never sell what we make anywhere else, then people in the United States will start thinking, well, this is a bad deal for us.

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