I cannot explain exactly why I had the confidence to be sending off my short stories at the age of 19 to, say, the New Yorker, or why it did not destroy me when I was inevitably rejected.

我不能确切解释为什么在我19岁时有信心将我的短篇小说寄出去。

youdao

In this case, I checked that the age my Person instance gave me was 0, the default for new Person objects.

在这里，我检查Person实例的age是否为0，新person对象的缺省值为0。

youdao

At age 24 I feel ready for a new challenge, and I hope you will offer that challenge to me.

24岁的我已经准备好，要迎接人生的另一挑战，希望各位能为我带来所期待的挑战。

youdao

The horrible internal conflict between emotion and logic that confronts every new mother returning to work strikes me as one of the unfair circumstances our biology and modern age impose on women.

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And after beating the so-called new kids on the block, you can't hold it against me to be fighting guys of my own age!

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Her observation made me realize how little we continue to know today, despite living in the age of social and new media, about the way business is conducted in the Middle East.

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