I spent two more years trying to get to you.

我花了两年多的时间想要报复你。

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I've been trying to get you all day—don't you ever listen to your messages?

我整天都在设法跟你联系，难道你就没有听一下电话留言？

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We've been trying to get back to you, Tom, but we think we took your number down incorrectly.

我们一直试着给你回复，汤姆，但我们觉得我们记错了你的号码。

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This means you should not risk losing something you have by trying to get more of something you do not have.

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The message I'm trying to get to here, because I'm running you right up against time, is I have to be careful about what's a primitive step.

我想说的事情是，因为我正在跟大家讲算法时间复杂度，我们需要注意一个基本步骤的定义,如果我可以假设。

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What we're trying to get at here is--it can be very elusive, but I imagine most of you are familiar with it.

我要表达的意思,可能非常晦涩,但我相信你们大多数对它并不陌生

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The ads to most watch out for are those pretending to offer a job but are really trying to get you to give up personal information, such as a bank-account or Social Security number.

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"It's all the things that you do when you're young and trying to get someone to sleep with you, " said co-executive producer Judd Apatow.

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To her and hundreds of millions of others, it feels a lot more familiar, friendly and welcoming even though you know its marketing and someone somewhere is trying to get you to buy.

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