"When you look at Salt Lake City, they didn't get it the first time. They redid their plan, they came back, and they were able to get their Olympics.

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Now this isn't the first time that we have in Milton the representation of the turning of a person to marble.

这不是第一次,在弥尔顿的表述中把人向石头转换。

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Or a painting may strike you in a completely different way that you didn't even see in the first time.

或者一幅画以完全不同的方式给你留下另一种印象，而这个你第一次看的时候甚至没有发现。

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This isn't the first time the MacBook Air has been used in cooking, however, and it definitely isn't the first time someone has written about this computer being potentially-somewhat-maybe dangerous.

CNN: MacBook Air 'doubles as a kitchen knife'

Early this morning at Moffet Air Field in Mountain View, California, Solar Impulse finally took off on the first leg of its barnstorming tour across the US. Of course, this isn't the first time the sun-powered plane and its pilots, Bertrand Piccard and Andre Borschberg, have flown long distance, but it is the first time it's taken wing through American airspace.

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This wasn't the first time two banks dueled over sponsorship of a major Hong Kong event.

WSJ: UBS Secures Global Art Basel Sponsorship