In spite of obvious difficulties, she set her teeth and embarked upon the long course toward her goal.

尽管困难很明显，她还是下定决心朝着目标开始了漫长的历程。

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She set about whittling down the likely candidates from the 150 who applied to a list short enough to interview personally - eliminating the ones who reassured her that they still had their own teeth.

她着手从150名提出申请的可能候选者中进行大幅删减，列成足够短的名单已备相亲——排除了那些向她保证自己不全是假牙的人。

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For the first time in her young life, Alex had a full set of teeth.

在她年轻的生命中，亚历克斯第一次长出了一幅完整的牙齿。

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She resented it, and it always seemed to set her teeth on edge though if she'd heard it once, she'd heard it a hundred times, so often in fact that her daughter, just learning to talk, had eagerly enlisted in the interrogation.

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Constance unpacked her clothing that first night in her strange chilly room, brushed her teeth, plumped the pillows on her new bed, set the alarm.

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