The first step is always the hardest, and once taken, it sets up the momentum needed to more easily knock out the remaining steps.

第一步往往是最难得，但是如果做好了，它会帮你建立你需要的动力，并让我们更容易地去做接下来的步骤。

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The city’s image has taken a knock. How bad is the damage?

这座城市的形象受到了破坏，破坏了多深呢？

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And the idea that ordinary workers who own shares in their firm will stop senior managers taking bad decisions has taken another knock.

而普通员工持股会阻止高级经理做出错误决定的想法也遭重创。

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Either way, the legitimacy of the parliament has taken a knock, and the dispute with new MPs will drag on.

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"The good thing from our point of view is Dylan Hartley has been down to Wales in a tough European game, taken what they have thrown at him on the field, produced a winning performance as captain and taken a team into the knock-out stages of the Heineken Cup, " stated Johnson.

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His approval ratings have already taken a knock after the revelations of corporate malpractice and accounting fiddles at companies like Enron and WorldCom.

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