"No matter how lofty public welfare activities are, they can't be allowed to take first place in a player's life," says the China Sports Daily.

“公益活动再崇高，也不能在现役球员的生活中占据首位，”《中国体育报》如是说。

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At first she tried to take charge of the meeting but I soon put her in her place.

起初她很想主持会议，但我很快就把她轰下来了。

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But there are steps we should take to prevent that from happening in the first place.

但是我们还需要采取些措施在第一时间预防这样的事情发生。

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It's sort of late in the day for students who have been through the better part of a semester thinking about the nature of death to argue, maybe, it wasn't such a good idea for you to take this class in the first place.

对学生来说有些太晚了,你们经历了大半个学期,思考着如何讨论死亡的本质，也许，你一开始来上这门课就不是个好主意。

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"Even if it didn't manage to take the first place, Syriza is now the most basic body representing the average individual, the progressive and the anti-memorandum portion of our population, " Tsipras said.

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But one thing I doubt will ever be proved false is that it's much easier not to gain the weight in the first place than to take it off later.

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At the end of December Mr McCain, now a third-term senator for Arizona (with a Vietnam record to match Mr Kerrey's), formed his exploratory committee and so became the first Republican to take a place on the official starting-line.

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