It's unwise to start down the path of entrepreneurship unless you've got a zeal that will get you through rough patches and keep you interested long after the initial enthusiasm has faded.

除非你抱有能够帮助自己度过艰难时日并且在最初的热情逐渐消退之后的很长时间里仍能保持浓厚兴趣的热忱，否则开始创业之路将是不明智的选择。

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During the interview, try to start off with a large picture and grab the hints given by the interviewer and keep narrowing the scope down and nail the problem!

在面试时，首先要从宏观角度出发，抓住面试官给你的提示，然后缩小范围，把问题解决掉！

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To keep office expenses down, we can start from office stationery.

为了减少办公经费，我们首先应从办公文具入手。

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Toyoda said in the interview that the company won't start building any new auto plants through 2015 to keep fixed costs down despite burgeoning sales and what he feels are good prospects for global auto growth.

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Just as expanding the global labour force by a quarter through the addition of cheap Chinese workers helped to keep prices down in the West, so higher Chinese wages might start to export inflation.

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At the start, it was moving at 13, 200 miles per hour, and needed to be slowed down, to keep it from ending up a smashed pile of rubble.

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