Syria has been allied with Tehran since the outset of the war between Iran and Iraq in 1980.

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We have a strained image of the composition of the poem at its very outset and we have an image of someone writing as if he were participating in a race.

如果一开始我们就对诗歌的创作有一种不友善的印象,那么我们就会对诗人有一种印象,就好像他正在参加一场竞赛。

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The fact that the death here in Lycidas is the death of a young, virginal poet at the very outset of his career, as you can imagine, resonates in a lot of powerful ways.

利西达斯》中的死者是一个年轻，还未失童真，事业刚要起步的年轻人，可以想象，这与弥尔顿有很强烈的共鸣。

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Unsurprisingly, exercisers also were somewhat more fit than they were at the study's outset.

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Some family offices, like New York's TAG Associates, have served multiple families from the outset.

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Many people, including me, thought that the committee had no chance of success from the outset.

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