Pike, who starred in An Education last year, was the first choice to play Skeeter, but she said no to playing the nosy journalist.

去年主演了《成长教育》的派克才是扮演斯基特的首要人选，但她拒绝了扮演一个八卦记者。

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During this morning's test, I couldn't do the last four questions, but I did the first five.

今天早上的考试中，最后四道题我答不上来，但前五道我答了。

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It wasn't the last time I witnessed someone thanking Mom or praising her on her bedside manner, but it was the first time I understood why I stood at the bus stop every morning.

这不是我最后一次看到有人感谢妈妈或赞扬她对病人的态度，但这是我第一次明白为什么我每天早上都要站在公交车站。

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"I am not the first president to take up this cause," he said "but I am determined to be the last."

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It's only to say that I can't escape the fact that the very first movement of mind, not the last movement but the first movement of mind, is interpretative.

只能说我不能回避的事实,是我思维的第一反应，不是最后反应而是第一反应，就是解读。

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But first, I want to start with the assignment I gave you last time, and I asked you all to think about these two questions and write some things down.

首先,让我们看看,上节课留的作业,我要求你们都思考,下面这两个问题并写下感想

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So this season's films may not only be the first but also the last of their particular kind to appear for some time.

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Windass scored the winning goal at Wembley in May that clinched top-flight football for the Tigers for the first time but last week the forward expressed his frustration at not playing and Duffen says he totally understands those concerns.

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"Production fell 38.2%t in the first quarter from the first quarter last year but it rose 7.2% from the fourth quarter of 2008, which shows that the final quarter of last year represented a low point in the (production) cycle, " he said.

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