我意识到我从来没有读到过某人某个时期开始的状态。

I realised I have never read an account of someone's period starting.

youdao

如果必须提前数月告诉某人某个软件项目要花费多长时间，而且必须精确到天，那么我几乎不可能做到这一点。

Very rarely can I tell someone months in advance how long a software development project will take, if I have to be accurate to the day.

youdao

你不必成为某人的老板，就可以告诉他们在某个项目上做得非常出色。

You don't have to be someone's boss to tell them they did an exceptional job on a particular project.

youdao

We then have to get down to facts about cases, try to describe the instance, perhaps somebody who's in the terminal stages of some illness where they're in a great deal of pain.

然后我们要区分各种情况，尝试描述某个特定的例子，也许某人在某种疾病的晚期,他们在承受巨大的痛苦。

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