What's a bit more surprising is that it's not just the people who you closely come into contact with but people a step removed as well.

更令人吃惊的是不仅仅是与你有密切联系的人有此种快乐影响，而且仅一步更加靠近你的人也有同样的影响。

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People who have to build a new team often use recruiters and try to express what they are trying to achieve, but it is a step removed from the team that is actually physically going to do the work.

构建新团队的人经常找招聘代理，试图告诉对方自己有哪些要求，可这样做的问题在于：团队无法直接接触应聘者，而他们才是要一起真正干活的人。

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To be useful, a toString implementation needs to be kept up to date as fields are added and removed from the class, and I find this step too much trouble to be worthwhile in general.

为了更有用些，当从类中添加或删除字段时，toString实现需要保持最新。而我发现总的来说这一步太麻烦而不值得实现。

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Some U.S. officials, a step removed from the talks but often involved in discussions about them, said they do not rule out the idea of Clinton pushing for a partial agreement, or as one put it, "a framework of progress, " if another day or two passes without resolution.

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Another possibility is to ask people in the job but about another company, so you are still asking about a situation one step removed from them.

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Moreover, much of the coal he bought from Burlington is low-quality lignite, a brownish fuel one step removed from peat, which can't be transported because it tends to spontaneously combust.

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