Real criticism is not meant to find obvious mistakes, so if she found any—the type I could have found on my own—I had to start from scratch.

真正的批评并不是为了发现那些明显的错误，所以如果她发现了任何我自己就能察觉到的错误，我就得从头开始。

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Too often we start each project from scratch, instead of building on work we have done before.

我们的项目总是一切从头开始，而非建构在之前完成的作品上。

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So you ask yourself (it's 2 AM, and you must be alone, so you might as well talk to someone!), "I can either start to work on the report from scratch, or should I just start updating my resume?" A.

然后，您会问自己(这时是凌晨两点，您一定是独自一人在工作，否则还可以与他人交谈！)，“我是从头开始写报告呢，还是应该开始重新找工作？”

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It's a great excuse to create a stripped down e-mail client and start from scratch, focusing only on the basics.

CNN: New iPhone app vows to fix e-mail clutter

So should we turn our backs on Wikipedia -- scratch it and start again?

CNN: Use with caution: The perils of Wikipedia

But does that pragmatic approach leave Google vulnerable to an innovative start-up willing to risk its fate on building meaning-based search from scratch?

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