They worked hard to give their children a good start in life.

他们力争为孩子们奠定一个良好的基础。

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If you find it hard to start a talk, you can say something nice about people around you.

如果你发现很难开口，你可以对你周围的人说些好话。

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They decided to start a long and hard march.

他们决定开始一个漫长而艰苦的征程。

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And this is because as you start writing--saving files to your hard drive, what happens is you might save this file here, then this one, then this one, then this one, but very reasonably you might go back eventually and delete this one.

这是因为当你开始对硬盘驱动器进行读写时,你可以保存一个文件到磁盘的某处，然后再一个，再一个，又一个，最后你可能回到这,并删除这一个文件。

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That is going to make it hard for a start-up CEO to persuade a venture capitalist that he is going to get in on the next big thing.

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It is always hard to fund a start-up, but Dr Rodriguez said it was particularly difficult to get investors to buy into the idea of a money-making investment in Africa.

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It strains credulity that ascendant ex-Soviet hard-liners will be more amenable to eliminating such manufacturing assets should they start to turn a profit.

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