For most of us, half the battle is finishing the race, regardless of where we place among the finishers.

对多数人来说，完成比赛就是成功的一半，不论最后是排在第几位。

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For most of us, half the battle is finishing the race, regardless of where we place among the finishers. The same goes for a job search.

对多数人来说，完成比赛就是成功的一半，不论最后是排在第几位。找工作也是如此。

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Seeing the joy in their faces as they proudly held their finishers' ribbons, I felt inspired to keep running.

当他们骄傲的穿过终点线时，看到他们脸上洋溢的快乐，我感受到了坚持跑步的激励。

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The same order of top three finishers in the straw poll were the same order as the top three finishers in the national poll, and so to those skeptics who were concerned about the accuracy of the straw poll, the national poll provided empirical evidence that it was a pretty good representative sample of what's going on.

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The UNFPA's Mr Bernstein likens this to the first finishers of a marathon declaring the race over before the rest of the runners cross the finish line.

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