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今年它又一次捷足先登。 And, once again this year, he's first. | ||
早起的鸟先得虫；捷足先登。 Tis the early bird that catches the worm. | ||
早起的鸟儿有虫吃；捷足先登。 The early bird catches the worm? | ||
谎言总是捷足先登，凭借它们不可救药的粗俗拖着蠢人前行。 Lies always come first, dragging fools along by their irreparable vulgarity. | ||
要在酒吧里遇到合适的女人比较难，常常会被女人拒绝，因为她们大多数时候被醉醺醺的男人捷足先登。 Meeting women at clubs can get difficult because women get approached by drunk men most of the time so there is plenty of rejection. | ||
日本企业在收购过程中最大的不足就是太过谨慎，决策时间过长导致心爱之物被他人捷足先登，追悔莫及。 The biggest complaint about Japanese dealmaking is that companies are overly cautious: they take so long to reach decisions that objects of desire get wooed away by other suitors. | ||
因此，英语将仍然为优先选用的国际语言，这也还出于以下原因，即电脑键盘仍然保留难用的QWERTY配置——只因其捷足先登。 As such, English will remain the international language of choice for the same reason keyboards retain the ungainly QWERTY configuration-it got there first. | ||
