To mix yet more metaphors, you were trying to run before you could walk, and I've clipped your wings.

再混用一些隐喻，你还不会走就想跑，而我又修短了你的翅膀。

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This meant that every morning I could go for a run before I went to work.

这意味着每天早上上班前我都可以去跑步。

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She loved morning because she could complete her two-mile run before most of her family members got up.

她喜欢早晨，因为她可以在家人起床之前跑完两英里。

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The year before,southern troops sent a northern army fleeing from Bull Run.

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I think there's the old saying, "You can't run before you walk." and I think it's basically the same thing about writing.

有句俗话叫，“你不能未立先走。”我觉得写作跟这个是一个道理。

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Now you also may remember that we have already run into Spenser's Mammon before this point, before Paradise Lost.

现在你们可能也记得我们已经,在遇到《失乐园》之前就与斯潘塞的贪欲之神相遇了。

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"You can't teach your baby to run before it knows how to walk, " says Mars.

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Predictions have already been made that this is a dry run before a bigger rollout.

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And he concluded teachers needed greater support to run before and after school activities.

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