首先，我们参加的是投掷比赛。

First we had the throwing competition.

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学校号召我们参加“希望马拉松”活动。

The school called on us to take part in Marathon of Hope.

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我们参加了欧洲史考试。

We were examined on European history.

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And in fact I don't remember talking very much about the war though they had been in the war.

不过，说实话，我们并不经常,谈战争，虽然他们参加过二战。

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And John was in his first year of school, and he decided to join the running club, and we met there.

约翰当时是一年级，他决定参加我们的俱乐部，我们就这样认识了。

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We have a strained image of the composition of the poem at its very outset and we have an image of someone writing as if he were participating in a race.

如果一开始我们就对诗歌的创作有一种不友善的印象,那么我们就会对诗人有一种印象,就好像他正在参加一场竞赛。

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