If you're interested in screenwriting then the first thing you have to come terms with is that film history is littered with good manuscripts that never got made.

如果你对写电影剧本感兴趣，首先你必须接受一个事实，那就是电影史上充满了好剧本最终被搁浅的例子。

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But it's not a race, it's really just for fun and the best thing would be to take it easy the first few times you do it and then see if you can gradually improve your time.

但这不是一场比赛，真的只是为了好玩，最好是在刚开始的几次比赛中放松一些，然后看看你是否能在时间上逐渐提升。

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We partitioned the design model by business component first and then by layer (often not the same thing), rather than by layer first.

我们首先通过业务组件对设计模型进行了划分，然后再对他们进行层次的划分(这两个任务通常是不同的)，而不是一开始就对模型进行层次划分。

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And then, going back to the first question that you ask me, what's the thing that I measure the most?

回到你问的第一个问题，我看重的衡量标准是什么？

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So, the first thing we do is put two electrons between h and c, and then two electrons between c and n.

那么，我们先在氢和碳之间放两个电子，然后在碳和氮之间再放两个电子。

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The first thing they are supposed to say is good morning or good afternoon, and then they say, what are your questions?

他们应该说的第一件事就是,早上好或下午好，然后会问，你的问题是什么呢？

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And then the first thing I said was, Why?

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For the simple basic truth is that when a supplier faces increasing competition in its trading space then the first thing to suffer is going to be the margins: as it cuts them to try and maintain sales.

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The moderator then abandoned this line of questioning and instead showed random pictures, asking candidates to say the first thing that came to mind.

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