Before I started the job, I had no preconceived notions of what it would be like.

开始做这工作之前，我并未预想过它的实际情况。

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As soon as I started the car early this morning, a call came through that a young boy in our neighborhood was seriously ill.

今天一大早，我一发动车子，就接到一个电话，说我们社区的一个小男孩病得很重。

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Steel has given a figure of "20 hours" when describing her "exhausting" process in the past, "I started the book and didn't leave my desk until the first draft was finished."

斯蒂尔用20小时来描述她过去“筋疲力尽”的写作过程：“我从开始写作到第一稿完成的过程中没离开过桌子。”

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So I picked her up and I took her to the couch and I just started talking to her about what happened.

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But I started the adjustment when I started working work for Governor Bush in early 1999 as policy director.

但我一开始为布什工作,就开始调整了,那是在1999年初，我是政策司长。

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So I moved around at a couple of law firms. I started at a law firm in the South.

所以我跑了一些律师事务所。我开始在一家南方的律师事务所做事。

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They decided that I probably ought to get the retina re-attached before I started the chemo.

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The navigation system seemed to take forever to initialize when I started the vehicle.

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On the other hand, I started the day on my birthday with a 3 mile run.

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