At the starting gate, Rollo sticks to ketchup red and rival Pickle to mustard yellow.

在起点的门口，Rollo在番茄酱红色的赛道上，对手Pickle在芥末黄赛道。

Or will they not even make it out of the starting gate?

还是他们连起跑线都走不出来？

And then I jumped as around us the small crowd roared into life and the horses bolted from the starting gate.

然后我跳了起来，因为我们周围的小人群咆哮着活跃起来，马匹从起跑门狂奔。

My mother burst out of the front door and ran down the path, like a sprinter out of the starting gates.

我妈妈冲出前门， 沿着小路奔跑，就像一个冲出起跑门的短跑运动员。

But very often these technologies never get out of the starting gate because the fear of unintended consequences absolutely stymies even the most basic innovation at the get-go.

但很多时候，这些技术连起点都迈不出，因为对意外后果的恐惧毫无疑问会阻碍创新，哪怕是最基础的技术创新。