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take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
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/ˈstɑɹt/
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take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
开始行动,迈出第一步。
College English Test, Band 6, Part 2, Listening Comprehension, Section A, Directions. In this section, you will hear two long conversations. At the end of each conversation, you will hear four questions. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D. Then mark the corresponding letter on answer sheet 1 with a single line through the centre. Conversation 1 OK then. This here is your yearly performance review. You've been with the company for three years and under my direct s
College English Test, Band 6, Part 2, Listening Comprehension, Section A, Directions. In this section, you will hear two long conversations. At the end of each conversation, you will hear four questions. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D. Then, mark the corresponding letter on answer sheet 1 with a single line through the centre. I've just bought a new blender. What's that? A blender. You know, a machine that blends food. Ah, yes, of course. The electric kitchen
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How do I know when to quit something? It's okay. You can quit things. Hang on a minute. When I went to the gym this morning, there was a Michael Jordan quote. If you quit once, it becomes a habit. Never quit. He's wrong. And it's very clear that he's wrong. And I've failed more times than most people who listen to this. And the simple secret for the power of quitting is the dip. And the dip describes something in the world that no one talks about. And so one of the things I try to do is help people understand it because my whole career is about how can I help people do better? find why they're
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Forget 11 Labs, Microsoft just released a free voice cloning tool so good that they actually had to take it off of the market three weeks after it was released. Okay, here's the tea guys. So over a year ago, Microsoft developed Vibe Voice, but they were too afraid to release it because the voices that it was able to generate were too realistic and they were afraid it would flood the market with deep fakes. Now, last year, they finally released the project and they open sourced the entire thing. But within weeks, there were way too much concerns about deepfake. So Microsoft pulled the entire pr
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