Despite winning several prestigious literary awards of the day, when it first appeared, Alice Walker's The Color Purple generated critical unease over puzzling aspects of its compositions.

尽管爱丽丝·沃克的《紫色》一问世就赢得了当时几项著名的文学奖项，但它还是引起了人们对其作品中令人困惑的一些方面的批评。

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Much the same sort of thing was said about the internet when it first emerged.

互联网刚刚出现的时候，也有人说过类似的话。

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I've written about this issue in the past, roughly three years ago when it first surfaced as an issue.

大约在3年以前，该问题刚刚开始浮出水面时，我曾经就该问题写过一篇文章。

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It was like the day -- a hundred years later -- when the first American walked on the moon.

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This is when it first occurs to her that the whole world is being organized around her: Nothing of the night's could touch her. Nothing did.

这是她第一次意识到,她周围的整个世界是被安排好的：,那一夜没有什么能够触动得了她，没有。

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So, first impressions matter hugely when dealing with people because it sets the stage for how we interpret everything else.

在与人相处中，第一印象非常重要,因为它制约了我们对后来信息的解读。

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And the study is relatively recent, but it did get a lot of attention when it first published.

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Plan B has been controversial since 1999 when it first was approved as a prescription-only drug.

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That follows a 9% drop on Friday, Nov. 2, when it first announced the data.

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