My spirits sank at the prospect of starting all over again.

想到一切都得从头再来，我的情绪一下子低落了。

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But I'm too old to believe in such sentimentalities as clean slates and starting all over.

我太老了，不相信清白的历史这类多愁善感的事，而后一切重新开始。

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China promotes the building of a security framework in the Asia-Pacific region, which does not mean starting all over again, but improving and upgrading the existing mechanisms.

中国推动构建亚太安全架构，不是另起炉灶，不是推倒重来，而是对现有机制的完善和升级。

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Rather, it is for those who need capacity in a hurry and do not mind starting all over again if something goes wrong.

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The maple season is short but exhausting, he said, so many producers may not relish the prospect of starting all over again with birch.

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His ideas for tackling almost any weakness in government (waste, border security, terrorist threats, to name but three) tend to involve demolishing whole departments and starting all over again.

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