I had a really tough time learning English in the first year of high school.

高一那年，我曾经有过一段刻苦学习英语的艰难时期。

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I could hardly believe my ears when the news came that I had won the first place in the Oral English Contest.

当我在英语口语比赛中获得第一名的消息传来时，我几乎不敢相信自己的耳朵。

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First of all, I had to look for the English translation of this insect.

首先，我不得不找到这个昆虫的英文翻译。

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They want their kids to learn English in first grade, and so I've had to ship in a whole bunch of foreign speaking teachers to meet the demand.

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And he said, well, you know, my biggest problem is, Korean parents are too demanding and they are insisting, for example, that I import, and I've had to import, thousands of foreign English teachers because they all feel that first graders should be learning English already.

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In Tokyo, I met with John Gauntner, an American wine expert who had just penned what was then the very first English language guide to sake (there are now several).

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