Improvements in childhood nutrition in the first quarter of the twentieth century, for example, gave today's elderly people a better start in life than their predecessors.
For example, if the world is really round, we can predict that any of us, going on and on in the same direction, should eventually find ourselves back where we started.
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23. 她把这项工作当作她从事媒体职业的起点。
She regards the job as a launch pad for her career in the media.
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24. 什么时候只要有他在,他就总要挑起点事来。
Whenever he's around, he always manages to stir up trouble.
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25. 这四条旅游路线的起点都是北京。
The four routes all start from Beijing.
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26. 带着我们柔嫩的、充满希望的皮肤,这就是我们的起点。
With our tender, hopeful skin, that is where we begin.
"This is much like 'The Hare and the Tortoise', the faster, but not the winner," thought Lizzy, who, though proud, had enough feeling to take a lesson: The quick, proud may have the start, but the quiet, steady may do more in the end.
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28. 它是音乐体验的起点。
It is the point of departure in the musical experience.
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29. 长期以来,东北亚和西伯利亚一直被认为是新世界的首批人类殖民者的起点。
North-east Asia and Siberia have long been accepted as the launching ground for the first human colonisers of the New World.