Clay urged his friends in the border states between North and South to try to build public support for the Union.

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So this is where you'd go to relax, to make a business deal, to meet your friends, to chat, to try to have sex, try to meet somebody.

人们可以在那儿得到放松，谈谈生意，见见朋友，聊天，性爱，约会。

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It's an expensive place to live, so most of my friends do try to get part-time jobs to make ends meet.

这个地方生活成本很高，所以我的很多朋友都试着找份能够糊口的兼职。

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So, investors will have a tendency to try to hide -or people who sell investments will try to channel the good investments to their friends and dump the bad stuff on other people.

所以,投资者倾向于掩盖,或者说是投资产品的销售者会试图,把好的投资产品卖给自己的朋友,而把那些差的留给外人

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