他在最后一圈努力超过了领先的人。

He managed to overhaul the leader on the final lap.

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开始时领先的人纷纷落下，让别的一些人跑到了前头。

The early leaders drop back and allow others to make the running.

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最后，如果你输了某场比赛，后来你又赢了，你就可以说“我赶上了领先的人”。

Finally, if you are losing a race and then you win, you can say you caught up with the person in front.

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The Asians were ahead and the end of the isolation of Greece made possible communication, and it allowed this kind of learning and so you got this picture of some people learning how to do these things very, very well.

亚洲人领先于世,在希腊分裂后期,这种知识的交流成为可能,同时使学习这种技能成为可能,所以你能看到人们学习,如何将农作技术发挥到最好的图景

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