"This was six months of my life which left me nowhere further along in my career than before," Footman says. "It was not a learning experience and that was what I had expected."

“我为此花费了人生中6个月的时间，却对我的事业没有任何推动，”福特曼说，“这并非我原先期望的学习机会。”

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I had half-expected God — or my parents — to keep this moment from happening.

我还半想着上帝——或者我的父母，来阻止这一刻的发生。

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Of course, I had emailed a handful of my best friends by the time 9 a.m. hit this morning, and -- as is to be expected -- they all responded sympathetically.

当然，我给一票好友发了电邮，今早收到了回复，并且--如我所愿--她们都充满同情地回复了我。

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To tell you I had expected this level of physical prowess when I signed up to write this story would be a blatant lie.

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I've had 25% of the honey yield that I would have expected this year.

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"I never expected him to live this long, he had been thrown out of the litter and was only expected to survive for a couple of weeks, " she said.

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