The government's first effort to privatize a company has been a roaring success.

政府首次使公司私有化的尝试已大获成功。

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Underwood summed it up as "a first effort, naive, stiff, quaky and innocent a ticket into the marketplace".

安德伍德将其总结为“第一张努力，天真、生硬、颤栗、天真的进入市场的门票”。

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In 1871, eleven years after his failed first effort, f.v..

1871年是费迪南德•瓦恩迪瓦伊尔·海登在他第一次尝试失败之后的第11年。

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They were to make the first effort at a space chase.

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The Public Works of Art Program was the first national effort by the United States government to support artists.

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The hard work of this grassroots effort resulted in the first Earth Day on April twenty-second, nineteen seventy.

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His first effort with IBM will be to simulate a single rat neurocortical column.

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Despite their dominance, City's first effort on target did not materialise until seven minutes before half-time.

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Maroney, who had nailed her first effort and scored 15.866, received only a 14.300 on her second.

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