We had to become ever-more professional, because that was the lens through which we interpreted progress and success.

我们必须不断地使自己变得更加专业，那是我们检验进步和成功的准线。

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Some states try to regulate home-schooling. Twenty-six require parents to provide regular test scores or professional evaluations of their children's progress.

美国一些州试图对在家教育进行管理，26个州要求家长提供正规的测验成绩或可以体现孩子进步程度的专业评估。

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Twenty-six require parents to provide regular test scores or professional evaluations of their children’s progress.

26个州要求家长提供子女学习成果的定期考试成绩或者专业评估结果。

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However his progress in the professional ranks had stalled to such an extent that he has only fought 15 times in six years and had been considering quitting the sport.

BBC: Fry confident of causing an upset

After a slower start, Urszula -- currently ranked 37th -- may feel as though she is beginning to make her mark, with 2012 having proved a breakthrough year following a back problem that hindered her early progress as a professional.

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Over four centuries of scientific progress have convinced most professional philosophers and scientists of the validity of naturalism: the view that there is only one realm of existence, the natural world, whose behavior can be studied through reason and empirical investigation.

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