Feeling like you are falling behind and never catching up in the game of life.

感觉你在落后，从来没有赶上生活的游戏。

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By tracking business school grads over the course of their careers, O'Neill got a sense of how this process of getting ahead or falling behind starts early and never lets up.

通过追踪她们在工商学院的成绩履历表，O’Neill 发现领先或落后的态势其实在一个人早期便形成了，而且一经形成很难改变。

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However, the early goal was a huge blow to what is clearly still a side with brittle confidence and whilst they battled hard they never recovered from falling behind.

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Villa, who challenged for a Champions League spot for much of last season, never recovered from falling a goal behind after just a minute in the Gerhard Hanappi Stadium in Vienna.

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"I think we were due for a bounce, " said DeBoer, who felt his team never deviated from the game plan even after falling behind by two goals.

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