He had never been afraid of failure: he was a gambler, ready to go off somewhere else and start all over again.

他从不害怕失败：他是个冒险家，随时准备去别的地方重新开始。

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She had urged him to do this before, to leave his demeaning job at the Russian Riviera, to escape somewhere, get married, go to school, start a business, buy a house, have children, live happily.

她以前敦促过他离开在俄罗斯海滨酒家的那份没什么面子的工作，逃到某个地方，结婚，上学，创业，买房，生孩子，过上幸福生活。

youdao

So, the first unit of the class, so basically I'm going to go over the first half of the class today, and the second half of the class on Tuesday just because we have to start somewhere.

先来看看本课程的第一单元，今天先概要地复习一下这门课的第一部分，周二再回顾第二部分，为了有个起点。

youdao

It's always a good first approximation, because you need to start somewhere in terms of drawing Lewis structures, but then if you go and figure out the formal charge and you just have lots of charge separation or very high charges, like a plus 2 and a minus 2 and a minus 1 all different places in the atom, what it should tell you is maybe there's a better structure.

它总是一个好的第一近似，因为在画路易斯结构的时候,你总需要一个起点，但是如果你在算出形式电荷之后,发现有很多电荷分开了,或者说有很高的电荷，比如有一个正二，一个负二，还有一个负一1,在原子的各个地方，这应该就是在告诉你,或许还有一个更好的路易斯结构。

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