So, the oral stage is when you start off.

第一阶段是口腔期。

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"When you start off with this gigantic plan in place, it's really a set-up for failure," she said. "it becomes so abstract."

当你心里有一个巨大的计划时，你真的已经准备好失败了。

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When you start off your relationship with long distance, you're forced to deal with the issue of trust from the very beginning.

当你开启一段异地恋时，你从一开始就被迫去处理信任的问题。

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In other words, when you bite off your own project or when you start off by looking at someone else's projects, either that we looked at last week or some of the innumerable links we included in the specs, focus on just one piece of it, get that working, and then move on to the next.

换句话来说，当你开始着手去完成一件属于你自己的工程,或者，从参阅他人现在的作品，更或者是，参考工程设计书中,提到的无数链接，至关重要的一点是，你必须让它工作，然后再继续下一环节。

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So, the oral stage is when you start off.

第一阶段是口腔期。

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I was going to say when you first start doing this, even people who have been doing it for a long time still go off on ten-minute daydreams before realizing that their minds were wondering.

我本想说第一次尝试时，但即便是修行多年的人,也会走神十分钟之久,方才意识到自己刚做了白日梦。

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Indulge in each day's most important ingredient when you start your mornings off with included breakfast for two.

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It's very hard when people start off afraid of America to then say, gee, you know, maybe you want to overweight emerging markets when you're afraid of America.

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And I've been thinking that the very first one, the one you push to start it all off, must have been when Vivi slipped off our bell tower and nearly died, fifty-nine years ago.

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