Reading is nomore linear than thinking is, (or I eventually discovered, than writing; few writersstart at the beginning — indeed, they usually “write the first part last.”

相比于思考（我后来发现写作也一样，很少作家是从最前面开始写的，甚至他们常常从第一部分的最后开始写起），阅读并不具有更多的线性。

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The last part of the race is all uphill.

赛跑的最后一段全是上坡路。

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He's saving his strength for the last part of the race.

他保存体力，以便在比赛的最后阶段发力。

《牛津词典》

People in more than four thousand cities in eighty-eight countries took part last year.

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One recent, also, last year, an article from the Globe, also part some statistics, they show the reading guest.

同样，一篇最近刊登在《环球时报》上的文章，报道了一些数据，也表明了一些现实。

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And what we saw last time is that this was necessary to make things work, this part of it in particular.

上节课我们讲,这是对外做功的必要条件，特别是这个部分。

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September and October SUV sales will look strong compared with last year in large part because last year was an absolute disaster for SUV sales.

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The group includes Adam Pardy, acquired in a trade with Dallas last summer, and Brayden McNabb, who spent part of last season in Buffalo.

WSJ: LA Kings acquire D Robyn Regehr from Buffalo

Sceptics point to the behaviour of copper prices in the latter part of last year.

ECONOMIST: The charge-sheet against commodity speculators is flimsy