Collecting raw material, which is reading books and taking notes, is very much like the process of brainstorming at the prewriting stage of an ordinary essay.

收集原始资料，即阅读书籍和做笔记，很像写一篇普通文章前的头脑风暴过程。

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A: For many ordinary people, they only see the models dressed gorgeously on stage but they do not know about the hardships behind the scenes.

对许多普通人而言，他们只看到模特们在舞台上的光鲜亮丽而不知道我们在台下的艰辛。

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When the extraordinary becomes the ordinary-that is the final stage of all progress and success-right?

当异乎寻常之事变成了司空见惯之事，那就是所有进步和成功的最后阶段了——你说对吗？

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It wasn't in any way an ordinary night before the stage, but in the context of things it was a way to get through the day.

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But, at bottom it is a replica of America in an earlier stage, where ordinary factory workers borrowing very little from private sources at very high rates of interest, became financially independent entrepreneurs.

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But instead of the elders of the Democratic party, the campaign prefaced Obama's speech with appearances from six ''ordinary Americans'' who took the stage to explain why they support Obama.

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