It looks as if I planned each successive step and that perhaps cancer has led to the good things in my life.

看起来好像我计划了每一个连续的步骤，也许癌症导致了我生活中的美好事物。

Of Hay's official tasks, one knew no more than any newspaper reporter did, but of one's own diplomatic education the successive steps had become strides.

对于海伊的官方任务， 人们知道的并不比任何一名报社记者多， 但对于自己的外交教育， 接二连三的步骤已经变成了大踏步前进。

As the successive steps were taken in the direction of independent government, the patriots devised and applied tests designed to discover who were for and who were against the new nation in the process of making.

——随着朝着独立政府的方向采取连续的步骤，爱国者设计并应用了旨在发现谁支持和反对正在建立的新国家的测试。