She was in the lead from start to finish.

从头到尾都是她领先。

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Her authority in this new group was brittle and, like the fear of a bugbear by all of the young bees, all of the worker bees were watching to see if she would lead well.

她在这个新群体中的权威岌岌可危，就像所有小蜜蜂都害怕妖怪一样，所有工蜂都拭目以待，看她是不是能当好这个领导。

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Jennifer Lopez was first thrust into the spotlight when she won out in a nationwide search for an actress to play the lead role in Selena, director Gregory Nava's biopic about the slain Tejano singer.

妮弗·洛佩兹在一次全国性的女演员选拔中脱颖而出，平生头一遭被推到了聚光灯下。那是为导演格雷戈里·纳瓦的电影《塞莱娜》挑选演员，这是部关于一位被害的泰迦诺歌唱家的传记片。

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Along the way, her once squeaky-clean image -- she was a young teenager when she burst on the scene as the lead in Nickelodeon's "The Amanda Show" -- has taken a hit.

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When questioned whether she could have been seen as an agent of change instead of Obama, she replied that she was not the lead on the ticket, in a slight jab to US Senator John McCain.

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He was echoing Margaret Thatcher, who used the word "swamped" in the lead-up to her 1979 election victory, to howls of protest that she was "playing the race card".

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