An embarrassing blunder nearly blighted his career before it got off the ground.

他的事业还未起步，就差点因一次难堪的失误断送了。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

I'd got myself all psyched up for the interview and then it was called off at the last minute.

我为这次面试做好了万全的心理准备，可最后它临时取消了。

《牛津词典》

I got it off of my brother.

这是我从我弟弟那里弄到的。

《牛津词典》

It was raining as I got off the train in Nashville, Tennessee - a slow, gray rain.

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In a second he got it going forward and drove off crookedly past the man and boy still standing there watching.

他迅速地将车向前开动,歪歪扭扭地经过,仍然在一旁站立的男人和男孩。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Well it was partly because he got so rich and he started wanting to show off.

部分原因是因为他太富有了,于是他想要四处炫耀

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It got off on a macho, but false, premise: that the path out was by mutual pain: raising taxes and cutting entitlements.

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It got off to a rocky start in 1998 when it launched its first high-volume sport utility, the M-Class, in a new plant in Alabama.

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The tournament saw far better football than the dour play that affected Italia 90 and it got off to an entertaining start in the group stages.

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