We realized we were surrounded on all sides.

我们意识到我们被四面包围了。

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As soon as we realized something was wrong, we moved the children away.

我们一意识到出了问题，就立即把孩子们转移开了。

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"We realized pretty early on that it wasn't going to just be a marketing function, that there also needed to be a legal function involved with it.

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And the reason for this was mostly to, because we realized that the people around you, at your school, are the people who you want to look at mostly anyway.

这样做的原因主要是，我们发现，人们更乐于去了解同校生,或者身边的人的信息。

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I don't know about that. I am not so sure." But then, we realized that like when we walk out that door, it's the whole world again. So you get sucked up by your group, by your sort of identity.

我不知道，不是很确定，然后呢，我们就意识到走出那个大门，又是一个完整的世界，所以你就会,被你的团体，你的身份所束缚。

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After several more weeks, we realized our work with them was not going as planned.

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Seeing the differences between the two approaches, we realized we were on to something.

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We gave it to mutual fund managers when we realized that we usually underperformed the market.

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