'at first I resolved not to disturb you with such a useless piece of information,' said he. 'However, our impulses are too strong for our judgment sometimes.

“起初我决心不拿这种毫无用处的消息打扰你，”他说，“可是，我们的冲动有时候太强烈，控制不住我们的理智。”

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We have just done our first underwater repair, having found a piece of timber had broken.

我们刚完成了第一次水下维修，发现有一个水管已经破裂了。

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Early on, Goodger recalls, "our prototypes had a picture of a little tab that was unhappy, and if a tab died you'd see that. It was the first piece of personality in the product."

Goodger回忆早期的开发过程中说，“我们的原型种包含了一个不开心的图片标签，在网页崩溃时就能看到，这是这个浏览器产品的第一种个性。”

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"It's a big deal. How big a deal you have to measure piece by piece but clearly it is the first major change in our health care system since nineteen sixty-five so that's a long time coming."

VOA: special.2010.03.27

First is the forward-looking piece, which talks about our new sustainability strategy and lays out our 2020 goals.

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Probably the first piece of business is going to be to go ahead and fix our deficit and debt issues and make a decision about how big our government is and how we're going to pay for it.

WSJ: Fred Barnes: Obama and the Back-to-the-Future Campaign

It wasn't flattering, we came to do a job, prepared really well, we got two set-piece goals in the first half but knew if we came and closed them down we would get our just rewards.

BBC: Kent football results and summary