But the very thing that drives electric powered aircraft is also the biggest hurdle.

VOA: standard.2010.08.11

Now the surest sign of a hurdle is one of those pointed literary allusions that Milton makes in Lycidas, one of those remote allusions that Johnson had complained about.

如今关于这道坎的最确定无疑的迹象就是,他在里作出的那些文学臆想,即约翰逊曾经抱怨过的那些不切实际的幻想。

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that I think was, for me, the first hurdle that I had to get over is that... you know, you're not special.

我认为那就是，对我来说，要跨越的第一个障碍就是……你不是特别的。

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The last hurdle to a key reforming charter, know as the Lisbon Treaty, will disappear when the Czech Republic ratifies the document which observers expect will take place within weeks.

VOA: standard.2009.10.29

What seems so obvious, at least to me here in reading Lycidas, is that at this point in 1637 there's a stumbling block or a hurdle that Milton in his race simply can't get over.

在我读的过程中，显而易见的是，是在1637年时弥尔顿在他的职业生涯里,有一道无论如何也过不去的坎。

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Maybe on average institutions lose thirty basis points, but it's kind of Lake Wobegon, where we all believe that we're better than average, so we're going to overcome that thirty basis points -that's not such a big hurdle.

可能平均每个机构都会落后30个基点,这就有点像沃比冈湖效应,大家都觉得自己能高过市场平均水平,30个基点会赶上的,不算什么大的差距

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