There will be setbacks and false starts.

After a few false starts he picked up quite a lot.

经过几番挫折他明白了许多道理.

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After several false starts, she became a successful journalist.

她开始时遇到几次挫折,后来才成为能干的记者.

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After a few false starts he is now investing in greenhouse gas reduction projects across China.

在经历了很多不成功的尝试之后,他现在在调查研究跨中国的温室气体减排项目.

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After a number of false starts, she finally found a job she liked.

她起初失败了几次，之后终于找到了喜欢的工作。

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The least experienced athletes had caused a great many false-starts through the day's proceedings.

那天的比赛中，经验最浅的运动员抢跑无数次。

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Three-fourths of all the men sent there never came out alive.

送到那里去的人有 四分之三 再也不能生还了.

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Of course, as it turned out, three-fourths of the people in the group were psychiatrists.

当然，结果是那群人中3/4是精神病学家。

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What does three twelfths plus three fourths equal?

十二分之三加上四分之三等于 多少 ?

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At seven weeks, an embryo is about three-fourths of an inch long and recognizably human.

在第7周的时候，胚胎有3/4英寸长，人形已清晰可辨。

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Male members account for three fourths of the seats of the committee.

男士成员占了该委员会四分之三的席位.

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A soft spleen can be palpated in about three fourths of the patients.

四分之三的患者可触及脾脏,其质地柔软.

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Three-fourths meter is waltz time.

三/四拍是华尔兹曲的节拍.

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The surface is in general level, and about three-fourths are under crop.

地面大致平坦, 并且大约有3∕4的地种着庄稼.

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The sea covers nearly three-fourths of the world's surface.

海洋几乎占地球表面的四分之三.

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Water forms almost three fourths of the human body.

人体约四分之三都是水.

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About three fourths of the people in China are working in agriculture.

在中国有将近四分之三的人口从事农业.

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If I ate two pieces, I ate two-fourths , namely one-second .

如果我吃了两块, 我就吃了 四分之二,亦即二分之一.

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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.

我们假造自己的 四分之三,以便和别人相似.

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The flowerbeds, always before so meticulously tended , needed weeding as well.

过去总是精心料理的花坛现在也亟待除草.

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The area around the lake is covered with lawns and flowerbeds.

湖的四周,都是草坪和花圃.

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