All the runners stood nervously at the starting line.

所有赛跑运动员都紧张地站在起跑线上。

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Roy and four other cars revved their engines at the starting line, and then they were off.

罗伊和其他四辆车在起跑线上发动了引擎，然后就出发了。

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At the starting line of their careers, they are better educated than their mothers and grandmothers had been—or than their young male counterparts are now.

当她们位于职业生涯的起跑线上时，她们受到的教育要比她们的母亲和祖母当年接受的更好——或比同龄的年轻男性现有的受教育程度要更高。

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Roberto Carcelen will be among the skiers at the starting line and Philip Boit is hoping to join him.

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If this was a marathon race, we're not even at the starting line yet.

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I'm standing at the starting line of the girls' 100-meter dash, watching my 12-year-old crouch for the start.

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