The rungs of a ladder.

把梯子放坡一点。

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You are climbing up the ladder of success and want to skip a few rungs.

你正攀登在通往成功的阶梯上，并且你希望你的跨步能更大。

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During this part of the study, they were presented with a drawing of a ladder with ten rungs on it.

在形容的这个环节，递给了他们一幅画有十个阶梯的梯子。

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But stiff minimum-wage laws and other regulations have been chopping off the bottom rungs of the ladder and U.S. unemployment seems stuck at a high level, so American mobility may also take a hit.

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But even in Malaysia, it is not just at the top of the ladder that rungs are missing 15% of schools lack a stable electricity supply, let alone access to the Internet.

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