I should never have taken that job in the first place.

I hear an echo of the thinking that got us into this mess in the first place

我听到有人重提那个最先使我们陷入这一困境的想法。

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I still don't understand why you chose that name in the first place.

我仍不明白，你究竟为什么取了这么个名字。

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She could not have taken these massive doses orally. In the first place, she did not have enough pills.

她不可能口服这么大的剂量，因为她根本没有足够的药丸了。

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They finished in joint first place.

他们获得并列第一。

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Still, Jones represents a small percentage of first-generation students who are able to gain entry into more elite universities, which are often known for robust financial aid packages and remarkably high graduation rates for first-generation students.

尽管如此,琼斯还是代表了一小部分能够进入更多精英大学的第一代学生,这些精英大学强有力的经济援助计划和第一代学生的高毕业率非常有名。

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The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, for instance, admits only that the graduation rate for its first-generation pupils is "much lower" than the percentage of all students who graduate within four years ( 81 percent).

例如,北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校只承认其第一代学生的毕业率"远低于"所有四年内毕业的学生的毕业率，即81%。

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Tennessee State's overall graduation rate is a tiny 39 percent, but at least it has a smaller gap between the outcomes for first-generation students and those of their peers.

田纳西州立大学的总体毕业率只有39%,但至少第一代学生和同龄人的成绩差距较小。

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Higher education institutions are, under federal law, required to report graduation rates, but these reports typically only include Pell recipient numbers — not necessarily rates specific to first-generation students.

联邦法律规定,高等教育机构必须报告毕业率,但这些报告通常只包括佩尔受助者的数据,而不一定有针对第一代学生的比率。

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Christian Vazquez, a first-generation Yale graduate, is another exception, his success story setting him far apart from students such as Nijay.

耶鲁大学第一代毕业生克里斯蒂安·巴斯克斯也是个例外，他的成功故事使他与Nijay等学生完全不同。

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Many of them are the first in their families born in the United States.

他们中很多人在各自家庭中都是出生在美国的第一代人。

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Students are placed in small groups with counselors ( trained seniors on campus); they have access to cultural and ethnic affinity groups, tutoring centers and also have a summer orientation specifically for first-generation students ( the latter being one of the most common programs for students).

将学生和辅导员（学校里训练有素的高年级学生）放在一组，学生就可以接触到文化和种族亲密团体、辅导中心，还可以接受专门针对第一代学生进行的暑期培训。暑期培训是学生最常见的课程之一。

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A flagship university in the South, the school graduates just 16 percent of its first-generation students, despite its overall graduation rate of 71 percent.

作为南方大学中的佼佼者,该校第一代学生的毕业率仅为16%,尽管其整体毕业率为71%。

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What Nijay didn't realize about his school — Tennessee State University — was its frighteningly low graduation rate a mere 29 percent for its first-generation students.

让Nijay没有意识到的是，他的学校田纳西州立大学第一代学生的毕业率仅为29%。

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Nijay represents a large and growing group of Americans ： first-generation college students who enter school unprepared or behind.

Nijay代表了一个不断壮大的庞大美国群体：第一代大学生。他们在入学时没有做好准备或落后于其他人。

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The concept of jailbreaking dates back to July 2007, when it was applied the phone with games and other applications not licensed by Apple Inc.

“越狱”这种说法最早出现于2007年7月，第一代iPhone上市的第一个月。最初的越狱只是为了添加个性铃音，后来这一做法迅速被普及，成为破解苹果手机程序、安装各类未授权游戏和应用程序的主要手段。

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Chelsea Jones, who now directs student programming at I'm First, was a first-generation college student at Howard.

切尔西·琼斯是霍华德大学的第一代大学生,现在在I'm First组织指导学生编程。

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"It's not only the selective and elite institutions that provide those opportunities for a small subset of this population," Rubinoff said, adding that a majority of first-generation undergraduates tend toward options such as online programs, two-year colleges, and commuter state schools.

鲁宾诺夫说："为这一小部分人提供这些机会的不只有精选的精英院校。"他补充说,大多数第一代本科生倾向于选择在线课程、两年制大学和通勤公立学校。

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In 1870, when Dickens died, the world mourned him as its first professional writer and publisher, famous and beloved, who had led an explosion in both the publication of novels and their readership and whose characters — from Oliver Twist to Tiny Tim — were held up as moral touchstones ．

1870年,狄更斯去世,全世界都为他哀悼,认为他是第一位受人爱戴的著名职业作家兼出版商；他在小说出版界和读者中引起了轰动，他的人物角色，像奥利弗·特维斯特、小蒂姆，被视为道德的试金石。

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Books always came first.

书总是第一位的。

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So what makes a good marriage? Faithfulness comes out top of the list

那么，是什么造就了美满的婚姻呢？结果表明忠诚是第一位的。

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