When this is the case, you"re best chance is just to let the potential employer know that your judgment or level of maturity at the time just wasn"t that good.

当遇到这种情况，你最好的机会是让你的潜在雇主了解你当时的判断不太准确，你不是那么成熟。

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My friend Don considered himself a musician. He played the tambourine in junior high school and, by my recollection, wasn 't very good.

我的朋友唐一直自认为是一个音乐家，他上初中时打过手鼓，然而，我记得他打得并不好。

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Maybe it was a bit lucky. The second half wasn "t so good."

也许有点儿运气吧。下半场就没有那么好了。

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It wasn't good enough today, so after the season I'm going to go home and rest a little bit and I'm going to work harder than ever,".

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And it will, at least, be worth pausing periodically to ask ourselves, maybe Plato realized it wasn't a very good argument.

但至少,它值得我们偶尔停下来,琢磨一下,也许柏拉图也意识到这不是一个好论证

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And I was pretty good. I was pretty good. I wasn't like the low league level.

我打得很好，很不错。不像是低级联队的水平。

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At risk of echoing my retailer friends, I have to admit I didn't taste much that wasn't good, and there were even a few wines I'd even call great, particularly in terms of price-quality ratio.

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"His fans don't condone anything and they know that this situation wasn't good but they are more concerned about what he is coming out with musically, " Mitchell said.

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In other words, "I wouldn't expect my daughter to be any good at maths because I wasn't any good" might not be just a matter of poor parental attitude.

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