Those who started their business from scratch usually had a hard beginning followed with prosperity.

那些白手起家的人们一开始非常艰辛，但后来的生意都很红火。

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Such a hard beginning created a great amount of pressure on someone with an introverted personality like mine.

如此艰难的起步，对于我这个性格内向的人来说怎么能不是个极大的压力。

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She collected the work of the great ancient painters, but also worked hard to support modern artists beginning their careers.

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A lot of the rigid moral distinctions that the poem has actually been working rather hard to establish are beginning to blur.

很多在诗中严格意义上的道德上的区别已经,变得日趋模糊。

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Parking was hard to get in the beginning because it's kind of a lousy system.

一开始停车位不好找，因为这个系统很差劲。

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Now, however, some hard realities are beginning to sink in.

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The capper: At my going-away party, one tool-room engineer--a guy who had hazed me hard in the beginning--asked if I wouldn't mind talking to his son about going to college.

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So the hard work is only beginning.

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